Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Creasey (190 pp.; Scribner; $2.95), involves the Scotland Yard operative with the least probable nickname-Inspector "Handsome" West-in the most deplorable of crimes: a hit-and-run driver has aggravated the servant problem by squashing a nice old nanny at a zebra crossing. But Nanny-as proper application of the least-likely-suspect-but-one rule should make clear at the beginning-has stickied her hands with something more than spilled oatmeal. The evildoers sin vigorously, and Handsome West ratiocinates like a computing machine, but despite their efforts, the book seems only a notch or two above...