The House of Riddles. By Dorothea Gerard. (Hutchinson and Co.
6s.)—The story of The House of Riddles oscillates between the Kiondyke and a seaside University town in Scotland which the reader of the book will have no difficulty in identifying. The plot is ingenious, and the way in which the heroine, Elvira Cameron, runs to earth the man who has committed the murder of which her husband is accused is worthy of the finest detective skill in fiction. Whether the only means by which Elvira can accomplish her ends are not really too treacherous to be used is another question ; but certainly Kennedy, the murderer, does not deserve to have much mercy shown him. People who play golf on the wind-swept links by the sea in the Scotch University town treated of will be exhilarated to think that secret pas- sages may connect some of the old houses in the town with each other; but it is difficult to imagine this particular place as having ever been the scene of a considerable counterfeit bank-note factory. The short stories which are included in the volume are not very interesting, though there is a certain pathos in the account given of the two monsters who find sympathy and com- passion in each other.
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