15 NOVEMBER 1930, Page 33

INSPECTOR FROST AND LADY BRASSINGHAM. By Dr. H. Maynard Smith.

(Benn. 7s. 6d.)—Inspector Frost works largely by intuition. In his search for the missing head- mistress of a fashionable girls' school he is guided mainly by what he feels that the characters, in particular the school- mannish Miss Dampier, have not said. He is even helped by what nobody knows about the school finances and by the complete disappearance some twelve or more years ago of the headmistress's brother, about whom nothing has subsequently been heard. The conversation of the characters is breezily improbable. They themselves are more or less stock-types, and behave in character throughout, but they are not un- attractive.