13 MARCH 1926, Page 47

Not Sufficient Evidence. By Mrs. Victor Rickard (Constable. 7s. 6d.).-Last

year we welcomed Mrs. Victor Rickard's novel Upstairs as an admirable example of the intellectual mystery story. Her present story is on these same lines, but it must be confessed that there is some ground for fear that Mrs. Rickard will lower the literary level of her work and take altogether to sensation. This from the author of The Light above the Cross-roads would indeed be a pity. Her new book has, nevertheless, a good deal of merit and one admirably drawn figure, that of Florrie Cookson, whose sinister geniality is admirably analysed.