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WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS, by Geoffrey Household (248 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), is one of those controlled British exercises in suspense in which the imminence of death seems as natural as the call of a thrush. An old manhunt expert, Author Household (Rogue Male, A Rough Shoot) this time offers a killer who stalks a zoologist, an Austrian antiNazi who served as a British agent in World War II. The zoologist lives as a contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British...
...Geoffrey Crowther, managing director, the Economist
Most Africans have to find jobs as well as attend school, for only a few have scholarships or wealthy parents. Explains Geoffrey Adumah, 39, who is taking his final bar exams: "In Ghana we have big families because we have more than one wife. Family members band together to send the brilliant one to London to study and improve himself. But it is not always enough. For myself, I have to work as a kitchen helper in the evening. I'm in a lawyer's chamber in Middle Temple in the day. I study in between...
...their dark days of austerity. Britons were apt to find few experiences more painful than a successful art auction. At sale after sale, they saw their treasures knocked down to the prosperous bidders, who came mostly from the U.S. "It was.'' says London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, "a slaughter." But the slaughter is now over: Britons have not only been bidding princely sums to keep their Old Masters at home, they have even been bringing some that have been absent for decades back across the Atlantic...
...Robert Andrews was bought at Sotheby's for $364,000-the highest auction price paid for an English painting since the 1920s. Geoffrey Agnew has been paying between $30,000 and $56,000 for Turners and Constables, and is happy that he has done so ("Most reasonable," he says, in view of his subsequent profits...