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CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...
SLEEP LONG, MY LOVE, by Hillary Waugh (192 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), begins with the most traditional of all detective-story discoveries: the trunk in the trunk. It takes Fred Fellows, police chief in a small Connecticut town, several chapters merely to learn the identity of the dead blonde, or even that she is a blonde, since she has been separated from her head as well as her limbs. Spying out her falsehearted lover is an even tougher problem. Clever readers may spot the lady killer a few pages before the end, but the author has marked a fine trail...
MURDER IN BLACK LETTER, by Poul Anderson (182 pp.; Macmillan; $3.50) presents an amateur sleuth who is a professor of Renaissance literature, a judo expert, and a nervous wreck. Black depression over the death years before of his sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape...
BILLY LIAR (191 pp.}- Keith Water-house-Norton...
DIPLOMAT (299 pp.) - Charles W. Thayer-Harper...