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HANDS UNSEEN. By Herman Landon. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Landon's

plot is almost too full of entangle- ment. There are innocent men involved in shady deeds, criminals who take up crime from the noblest of motives, betrayals and cross-betrayals, mysterious vanishings, heroines in distress—enough substance for a dozen detective stories. But all this complexity is very well managed, and we are quite thankful for the profusion of incident with which we are pro- vided. " The Grey Phantom " gets himself into many tight corners before he clears himself of a charge of murder, rescues his fiancée's father from the clutches of a cold-blooded scoundrel, solves a few notable " mysteries," marries the girl and settles down to a peaceful life.