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Books: The formidable Inspector gets his wallet lifted and stumps into the world of the avant-garde film makers in Maigret’s Pickpocket, latest from Georges Simenon (Harcourt, $3.95) . . . Sequels: Alistair MacLean has written Force 10 From Navarone (Doubleday, November, $4.95) and Auguste le Breton, Rififl in New York in which the diamond heisters flee police and Mafia (Stein & Day, September, $5.95). . . . This year’s John O’Hara is And Other Stories, eleven short ones and a novella (Random House, November).

Pierre Boule (Bridge over the River Kwai; Planet of the Apes) offers The Photograph, a suspense tale about a legless former war photographer (Vanguard, October, $4.95) . . . Another Herman Hesse novel about yet another troubled young man is coming in its first American edition: Beneath the Wheel (Farrar, September, $4.95) . . . The Public Image, Muriel Spark’s new novel, concerns a film sex goddess whose husband plots to reveal the sham of their “idyllic” marriage by entrapping her in an orgy, and staging his simultaneous death elsewhere (Knopf, September, $4.50).

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Books: The formidable Inspector gets his wallet lifted and stumps into the world of the avant-garde film makers in Maigret’s Pickpocket, latest from Georges Simenon (Harcourt, $3.95) . . . Sequels: Alistair MacLean has written Force 10 From Navarone (Doubleday, November, $4.95) and Auguste le Breton, Rififl in New York in which the diamond heisters flee police and Mafia (Stein & Day, September, $5.95). . . . This year’s John O’Hara is And Other Stories, eleven short ones and a novella (Random House, November).

Pierre Boule (Bridge over the River Kwai; Planet of the Apes) offers The Photograph, a suspense tale about a legless former war photographer (Vanguard, October, $4.95) . . . Another Herman Hesse novel about yet another troubled young man is coming in its first American edition: Beneath the Wheel (Farrar, September, $4.95) . . . The Public Image, Muriel Spark’s new novel, concerns a film sex goddess whose husband plots to reveal the sham of their “idyllic” marriage by entrapping her in an orgy, and staging his simultaneous death elsewhere (Knopf, September, $4.50).