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Oh, if only she were a book reviewer,"" thinks woman's page columnist Tash before she gets a better job -- speechwriting for attractive governor Jeremy Playfair whose wife disappears cyclically, whose canary is strangled before drugs, a fire and an assassination conclude the fatal spiral of events. Helen McCloy's readers don't need a book reviewer -- they're rustproof and they enjoy just this kind of emollient entertainment.