18 MAY 1929, Page 29

-THE BISHOP MURDER CASE. By S. S. Van Dine.; (Cassell.

7s. 6d.)—" Who Killed- Cock Robin ? " That is the question which faces Philo Vance,- the enterprising and loquacious New York amateur detective, with whose earlier: exploits Mr. Van Dine has already acquainted Us: A man nanied Cochrane Robin is found murdered—apparently by a, bow and arrow—on a fashionable New York .archery range ; and-Philo Vance is confronted with a crime that is in other ways a modern dramatization of the famous nursery rhyme.i The story is highly ingenious, and Mr. Van Dine, who writes. with his usual gusto and humour, excels in giving the illusion' of reality to the- most far-fetched situations.