11 OCTOBER 1930, Page 28

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 are two murders and a suicide and in the end no crimu?, remains to be punished. The police are thus foiled agam though not in this case by the superior acumen of a private detective. The writing which clothes a rather meagre plot !" competent but not sensational. None of the eharaeteCls sufficiently attractive to create any great suspense in the read UR to whether they will be killed or not. But though unexciting the tale is ingenious, and the end is not easy to guess.