/tus_Faxsuaws Court Mystexy—by John Laurence, Hodder and Stoughton, London. 3/6.
A detective story with all the standard characters, a hero, heroine, villain, villainess, a police superintendent," and a. journalist from London. It is the history of a murder at night in a quiet little English wood, in a country village, and the subsequent hunt by the police, the hero and the journalist for the murderer. In this ease the reader is not able, as he usually is to solve the puzzle before the characters in the book, for there are 30 many on whom suspicion might be thrown that it is impossible to docide until in the last chapter the real murderer confesses to to2
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.