The Empty House. By Algernon Blackwood. (nash And...
Odd—Mr. Blackwood's ghost stories, of which this book (a netv edition) contains ten, present diflicul-' ties to the sceptic. Most of us can enjoy a ghost story in which an......
The Four Armourers. By Francis Heeding. (hodder And...
Cidd—Only the other day an eminent. chemist was expatiating upon the invisible chemical rays whereby "in the next war" (if any) whole populations will. be exterminated. He then......
Garstons. By H. C. Bailey. (methuen. 7s. 6d.).---...
the name of a big industrial concern, and Mr. Bailey's story deals with the elucidation of a mysterious series of crimes beginning in 1908 with the murder of the discoverer of a......
The Best Short Stories Of 1930. : English. Edited By
Edward J. O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. (l/1.)—It is impossible to mention a single characteristic co llllll on to all these stories. It can only be said that in comparison with the......
The French Powder Mystery. By Ellery Queen. (gollancz....
the wife of the owner of a depart- ment store tumbles, shot through the heart, out of a collapsible bed in a demonstration window of the store, you have a, situation such as any......
The Appearance Of Mr. J. G. Barnece. Life And Complete
Works of Michael Bruce (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 38. Ild.)• indicates that there is still a public in Scotland, and perhaps . elsewhere, to appreciate the tender, sentimental......
Bread And Circuses. By Herbert Agar. (eyre And...
8d.)—Mr. Agar has something to say on a good many subjects, and he knows how to say it without wearying us. At least three quarters of his book consists of conversations that......
Murder At The Pageant. By Victor L. White. Church. (collins.
7s. 0d.). The setting of a pageant in the, grounds of a country house is a tine confused field for a murderer. Jasper Hurst, the squire's new tenant, is found Icy an ex-member......
The Baffle Book. Edited By F. Tennyson Jesse- (heinemann....
fid.)—This book contains twenty-eight problems in detection, the solutions of which are printed upside down at the end of the book. The reader is gives all the clues and is not......
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(Continued from page 848.) We count Mr. Gabriel Wells as one of the best friends that England has in the United States, and we have pleasure . therefore in drawing attention to......
Strangers May Kiss. By Ursula Parrott. (shaylor....
Parrott's first book, Er-Wife, had the exceptional qualities of a "human document," so has Strangers May Kiss. It is rare to read a novel which - reveals - so faithfully a......
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