A suer min me Nioex—By Ben Bolt.
Ward, Lock, London. 3/6.
'A blase but likable young peer of the realm is the hero of the yarn. Educated at one of the foremost British "Public Schools, where" he Jexcelied at sports rather than work, and, after three glorious years the varsity, fortune still smiled on him. "For a'relation dies leaving him "title and more than sufficient feapital to keep him for the remainder fof his days. He is his own master. His adventures start with his unex-ceted return from abroad on the news of his relative's death. He celebrates his inheritance with some close friends rather too well, with the result that on returning to his at at a late hour he does not realize being occupied. "A mysterious indy, a shot and a dead body in his rooms during the night supply the nucleus of the story. "As is expected, {the damsel in distress proves to be young and pretty and.it automatically follows that she meets our Hero shortly after their first unexpected nocturnal encounter. "The seeds of love are sown and the male for his part determines to win the fair lady, free her from all implication in the ferime and find the actual murder Tt is light reading, touched with humour, and the characters of sport ing young men with ample means jand leisure are truly portrayed, A ferime book where the villain and his accomplices are practically "known from the start but escape detection by their ever-ready spotless allbis—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.