Memoirs of a Dance-Hall Romeo: Memoirs of a Dance-Hall Romeo

Jack Higgins. Pocket Books, $6.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-67844-9

Aspiring writer Oliver Shaw, recently demobbed from the British army in 1949, decides to devote his time to the pursuit of women. ``This slender yet interminable coming-of-age tale by immensely popular suspense novelist Higgins suggests only that the author shouldn't abandon his career in genre fiction just yet,'' noted PW. (July)

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