The Investigators. By J. S. Fletcher. (J. Long. 6s.)—Here we
have a wicked doctor working out a secret theory and making experi- ments in a remote Lincolnshire village, who in a rash moment in- vites a lively young niece to come and live with him. Other young people come to the house too, and his dark deeds begin to attract attention, but his secret becomes known only to the young squire of the place, Leonard Charlesworth, who is engaged to the niece. When he goes to the doctor's study and confronts him with his knowledge, Dr. Williams contrives to prick him with a splinter dipped in curare, the result being immediate paralysis. He then gives him chloroform, which the author describes as producing unconsciousness at once, and then operates on his brain in such a way as to destroy the connection of speech with thought. The solution to this lurid situation we must leave our readers to discover for themselves.
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