3 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 23

THE SWARTHMOOR TRAGEDY. By E. P. Frankland. (Stockwell. 6s.)—A good

deal of interest may be found in an altogether improbable story when it is as efficiently put together as this one. The Yorkshire dales and the old house nine miles from a railway form just the setting for a scheme of murders. The emotions of course, are not involved, or -so much blood- shed would be disturbing. The enjoyment lies in watching the author's ingenuity cope with each difficulty as the plot becomes more complicated.