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MURDER AT FENWOLD. By Christopher Bush. (Heineman& 7s. 6d.)—It is

always a pleasure to read a really complicated detective story and Murder, at ,Fenwold fully deserves a place. in this category. The setting of the story in the Fen- wold family seat, a very museum of valuable antiques, is picturesque, and the characters are distinctively drawn. There are several exciting sub-plots, and the only weakness of the story is that in the last pages of explana- tion -and disclosure the relation of the sub-plots to each other is a little vague.