BURGLARS IN BUCKS. By G. D. H. and M. Cole.
(Collins. 75. 6(1.)—The story is told in the form of correspondence from and to, various members of the house-party where the burglary takes place and extracts from the notebooks of Superintendent Wilson, an old friend. Some of the house-party are also known to us, including Peter Gurney, the host, and Everard Blatchington. Between them they succeed in solving the mystery which surrounds the lady with the poltergeist and the theft of the Pallant Emeralds and other jewellery from the house to which her husband has brought her. All the clues are in the possession of the reader almost from the beginning of the story, but it is doubtful whether they will be cleverer than the Superintendent, even with the help of the letters to which he had not then got access. The characters are human and intelligible, the plot bizarre yet credible for the most part, though the behaviour of Chris is not quite in character, and surely so remarkable a girl would be able to whistle from her youth up. This is almost the only weakness in a very entertaining story.
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