one of the intervals when the reviewer was forced to. lay. down this, tale bythe' most "popular of modern writers of "thrillers" hig Jose caught "an advertisement of another book. which claimed, as this one does, to be Eiigar Wallace's last and mest tiling masterpiece: and be wondered whether the late: amented Mr. Wallace was. going posthumously to-duplicate the feats Of Mr. Vincent Crummies with his "positively last appearances."
and if they keep up to, the standard of "When the Gangs Came' to London," let. there be many more. The more the merrier. For it will be a long tine before there is another Edgar Wallace.
Contrary to what one has come to expect from the author, Scotland Yard is not shown up in this book ite sucha favourable light Not that it is ron down, Not of all. But it is represented og being confounded Uy the in-
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