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Dead Storage. By George Bagby. (Boardman, 10s. 6d.) The body

in the Greenwich village apart- ment was that of a man who had been systemati- cally tortured; one way of finding out who had done it was to deduce whether death had come sooner than the tortaters had intended. An extremely well-organised piece of detective work, revealing a cunning extortion plot, in a good pro- fessional job of story-telling. .