6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 45

THE CASE- WITH NINE SOLUTIONS. =By Con-

nington. (Gollancz. Is.- 6d.)-Sirice death- by violence must be accounted for hi :one of three ways-accident, suicide, or homicide (including murder), there are nine possible ways of two people dying one or other of these deaths. The greater part of the book is devoted to the elimination of the eight erroneous solutiona and to the discovery of the right solution. The reader is-in turn nonpluSied by the ingenuity of the plot and flattered :by his pOwers of detection, and _his sympathies are throughout evenly, distributed between the many suspect characters. The denouement is completely unexpected, and fully upholds the author's reputation aii4 roaster of this kind

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