READABLE NOVELS. —The Lady of St. Luke's. By Mark Allerton.
(Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—The story of a girl with a taste for semi-Bohemian artistic society who marries a London clergyman. The difficulties which arise from the situation are just what might be expected, but in the end they are overcome. Kate Plus—Ten. By Edgar Wallace. (Ward, Lock and Co. 6s. net.)—Under this rather incomprehensible title Mr. Wallace gives us a series of thrilling sketches of the doings of a gang of criminals—all planned with infinite ingenuity by the lady known as " Kate." A friendly detective dogs her footsteps, and contrives in the end to save her from the con- sequences of her plots without being found out. He also is held enough to marry her. Crimes of Old London. By Marjorie Bowen. (Oldhams. Cs. net.)—This is not a book to be read by the nervous at night, the crimes described being of the most soul-shaking order. In some of the sketches an eerie element of the supernatural is introduced.
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