THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE. By Dorothy L. Sayers and
Robert Eustace. (Benn. 7s. 6d.)—The rather simple story of this case is told by the correspondence of the various principal characters and their statements prepared for evidence. It could, perhaps, have been told in no other way that would have made it so interesting, and it is a tribute to the authors that the interest is maintained to the end, though the solution is not in doubt for some time before that. The characters are all extremely vivid, the least likeable of them being the son of the Murdered man, who eventually tracks the criminal down, though the criminal runs him very close. But they are none of them very likeable. The soh:. ' tion is finally introduced in an ingenious way, in the middle of a philosophical discussion on the limitations of science, which prove to be also a limitation to this scientific murderer.
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