19 MARCH 1932, Page 28

BODY FOUND STABBED. By John Cameron. (Methuen.

6d.)—An Armenian millionaire, gentleman poet with a stockbroker son, a distracted ,clergyman, an ex-spy; and another : poet, compose a most promising troupe of suspects. But murder would inevit- ably suggest itself to even the most casual acquaintance of Seymour Periton—that most eminently murderabb philanderer-pacifist-D.S.0.-boxer-atheist. The story in- geniously apportions this wealth of motive and the love- interest with a most unusual austerity, keeps within the bOunds of crime detection.