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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......

Tuck Of Drum, And Other Stories, By Alfred Tresidder...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. As a writer of short stories Mr. A. T. Sheppard sometimes falls between two stools. He does not appear to airn at the neatly parcelled plot of the......

Fiction

7s. 6(1.) IT is commonly held that bitterness and a preoccupation with the sordid and the vile are, in a writer, certain indications of a passion for " realities " and "truth."......

Where No Man Pursueth. By David Sharp. (bean. 7s. 6d.)—mr.

Sharp has written a good solid adventuri story which turns out in the end to be a detective novel bulls by no means of the usual type. We are given the hero's adven- tures, his......

The Chaste Mistress.. By Constance Ragbag Wright. (john...

6d.)—This very pleasant story tells how Martha Ray, a haberdasher's apprentice of sixteen, attracted by her voice and person the fourth Earl of Sandwich: how he made her his......

Death In A Deck Chair. By Milward Kennedy. (gollann. 7s.

Od.)—It seems to be the fashion in crime stories to-day not to allow a solution before the circumstances hare led to a second, sometimes even a third, murder. In this book there......

The Doomed Five. By Carolyn Wells. (lippincott 7s....

friend, Fleming Stone, solves the mystery of the deaths of a millionaire and three out of four of the lega- tees under his eccentric will. These legatees stand between the......