23 FEBRUARY 1929, page 38

Fictioft Mixed Adventures

Rif : an Unvarnished History. By Gordon Daviot. (Bean. is. 6c1.) , . . IT is almost a shock to find sleuths of the soul and its sins, like Miss Clemence Dane and Miss Helen......

The Double Image. By I. R. G. Hart. (bean. 7s.

6d. )— This likeable story is described as a " murder thriller " ; but readers who seek a shudder in it will be dis- appointed. Before the principal characters meet, the murder......

- Like A Rose. By Mar G Aret Peterson. (senn. 7s. 6d.)

—Here is a melting, luxuriously sorrowful tale of .a- - g irl with g old hair, and "- perfect limbs," and a character which, the wrapper informs u s, is a " thi ng of fr ag ile......