Tunee Yan0¢ or Coue-—By Brooks. Hutchinson, London 'Munoeit tu Tie Fog—By Elaine Tia ton. Stanley Paul, London, 776 Around Oscar Wiide's gruesome declaration that "three yards of cord and a sliding board are the gallows need," Mr. Brooks built' a mystery novel that affords plenty of creeps, plenty of thrills, and plenty of speculation for those! who have conquered the habit of reading the last chapter first. It is a teal mystery, too, for the title, the gruesome frontispiece, and'the first chapters give no inication whatever of the finale, His characters of 0, Swete Me-'Tavish and Detective-inspector De-bonham are by now well-known and thoroughly appreciated and will be fan attraction to those who have already met them, whilst strangers may be recommended to obtain. a introduction. Whether such ama-tour and professional detectives Teally exist does not particularly matter: they make good reading) for those who require an occasional "thriller" to balance the more' solid] Kinds of literature.
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