THE HOUSE OF FAITH. By Maurice G. Kiddy. (Hutchinson. 7s.
6d.)—In this first-rate " shocker " Mr. Kiddy reveals an even more fertile imagination than his first novel, The Devil's Dagger, manifested. The plot turns upon a concerted plan among a number of criminals, who call their secret organization The House of Faith," to raid all the London banks simultaneously. The narrator, an ex-Oxford man down on his luck, is accidentally and inno- cently involved in the scheme. At first, in his anxiety to avoid suspicion, he acts recklessly, and himself becomes " wanted. But in the end he is the means of helping Scotland Yard to discover and break up " The House of Faith " on the very eve of the proposed coup. Mr. Kiddy writes with sustained vigour and breeziness, and his story is as ingenious and thrilling as it is frankly fantastic and impossible.
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