RBADABLE NOVELS.—The Twenty-Six Clues. By Isabel Ostrander. (Hurst and Blackett.
8s. 6d. net.)—A first-rate detective story. The multiplicity of clues and the rivalries of , the investigators are so ingeniously handled that the reader is kept thoroughly mystified up to the last chapter.— Musgrave's Luck. By Harold Bindles. (Ward, Look. 7s. net.)— Fired by a sturdy ambition, a young Liverpool clerk turns his back upon his old life and love and goes adventuring in a Spanish merchant ship. But " the most beautiful adventures arc not those we go to seek," and after many exciting experiences he returns to find love awaiting him beside the hearth.—The Trail of the Beast. By Achmed Abdullah. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d. net.)—A well-conceived political spy story. Scene : Paris, 1914. A murder, a map, a French actress and an American detective versus the Prussian—with the usual result.
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