24 JULY 1926, Page 38

FICTION

THE HOUSE IN CHARLTON ..CRESCENT. BY Annie Haynes. (Bodley Head. 7s. 6d. net.)--There is little to say about this novel except that it is a good and startling Murder story, and that the solution is kept very well concealed. There is rather more character-drawing than in average tales of the kind. The old butler, Soames, is well portrayed ; and we are brought into a gruesome and hysterical atmosphere.