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Hard & Half-Hard. The last two sim nons to reach the U.S. are published to gether in a single volume called Destinations. One of them, The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet, is a mixture of detection, mood and Paris atmosphere that gets under way when an elderly gentleman drops dead at a Paris bookstall. Since the author is more interested in the frayed lives and barely concealed despairs of his characters than in the mystery, he calls it a "half-hard," i.e., half-serious novel...
...cold-eyed, square-jawed Admiral had a job to do. Somewhere to the south lay barren and uninhabited Bouvet Island, discovered in 1739 and later ''lost'' by the chartmakers. Several years ago Norway and Britain fell to arguing over who owned it. Norway won. But then someone discovered that they had been talking about two different islands. The Admiralty told Vice Admiral Evans to find Bouvet. As soon as the wind fell last week, Admiral Evans pushed on south. Two days later the radio station at Simonstown, South Africa, caught a laconic message: "Have found Bouvet...