The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason. By Melville Davisson Post.
(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Randolph Mason is a person
of cynical temper and keen intellect who devises means by which his clients can escape the penalty of their wrongdoings. The cases imagined by the writer are curious enough ; they are sup-
ported by legal considerations which the writer of this notice is not qualified to criticise. But we may point out that in one, where the murderer escapes because the corpus Midi, the body of the victim, cannot be found, the getting rid of the body made far too easy. Mr. Post may remember, or at least can find, the case of a certain Professor Webster. Webster murdered a creditor who pressed him inconveniently for a debt. He had a laboratory at his disposal, but he utterly failed in his attempt to get rid of the body. In " The Corpus Delicti " the murderer has only a bathroom, and he succeeds.
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