THE WHISPERING CHORUS. By P. P. Sheehan. (Ernest Benn. 7s.
6d.)--Though this book is advertised as a murder thriller, the grip which it will obtain upon its readers is much deeper than that of the usual detective novel. The 'story passes in America and the plot is concerned with a defaulting cashier, John Tremble, who contrives to persuade the world that he has been murdered by substituting the corpse of a drowned and disfigured man. His wife remarries a man who becomes Governor of the State, and Tremble goes through many adventures. Finally, aged by his privations and disfigured by an accident, he ventures into the town again to see his mother and is arrested as his own murderer. So far the story is commonplace enough ; but the remaining chapters dealing with the psychology of the principal charac- ters have great force and ingenuity : they are written with a conviction which cannot fail to impress the reader. This bo6k has a serious interest and should not be confused with the ordinary murder story.
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