30 JANUARY 1932, Page 24

WHO CLOSED THE CASEMENT ? By Thomas Cobb. (Henn. 7s.

6d.)7--This book begins with an adequately mysterious murder, ibit the story gradually mils off to tame and 'obvious conclusion. Moreover' the author,

will whose death many old novel-readers wi t, here cheats, by withholding firoM the reader the ve's discovery of the only important clue.