The Voice from the Night. By C. E. Starry. (G.
Allen and Son. es.)—It is comparatively easy to write a short detective story ; one long enough to fulfil the commercial conditions of the novel—so many words for so much money—is a difficult task. Mr. Stormy accomplishes it with success. He gives, indeed, ample measure, and we nover feel that we have had too much. A lady is found in her drawing-room done to death with chloroform. The question of course is, Who murdered her 1, We read a good many more than three hundred pages before we reach the answer, and when we do it is corttdnly a surprise. It is a happy thought of Mr. Sterry to change the scene to Central America,.
He could hardly have kept up the interest without flagging. There he starts, so to speak, afresh, and makes one of the best stories of the kind that we have ever seen.
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