7 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 44

The Room under the Stairs. By Herman Landon. (Hutchinson. 7s.

6d. net.)—This American mystery story is very well manufactured, and all the usual sensations of anger, pity, fright, and joy in the prospect of wedding bells are deftly awakened. Best of all is the scene in Which the hero-and heroine are trapped in a secret, sound-proof room, with a new and very potent poison gas drifting down from the roof in feathers of mist.