A BRIDPORT DAGGER. By John Milbrook. (The Bodley Head. 7s.
6d.)—Those who are tired of Scotland Yard, amateur sleuths and all the machinery of modern murder stories will find Mr. Milbrook's old-fashioned mystery story a pleasantehange. Thetalebeginswitlithemurderofamagistrate, who, after a rather violent scene in court with a Romany- speaking gipsy, is discovered dead in his own coach with a horseman's pistol lying beside him. Gipsies and a fellow-magis- trate are suspected of the crime, and the author has laid his trails so well that very few readers will suspect the real and most obvious criminal. When they do reach the solution of the problem they will most likely blame themselves : really, they should applaud the author, whose tale is subtle and clever and whose descriptions of the New Forest district raise the book far above the level of the average thriller.
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