About the last place where one would expect to be would be on Magdalen yet after the choir had greeted May and the bells were clashing, Juan da Valgas was shot. The height on which he was killed made, other towers suspect—and what an alpine job for conscientious detectives. Mr. Max Dalman has provi more than one murder in "Death on May Morning" (Ward Lock, London. 3/6) and a sweet girl undergraduate is almost added to the number. Th. efforts of the police are overhadowthose of a newspaper reporter is young girl, and the inspector in the end admits that the reporter has "done the work of an entire police force." The triumph of an amateur over a professional is always popular and the ultimate discover that a man died because his hair was red is made amidst the very plea-
Books Received The Oil Vendor and the Sing-Song Girl. V. Hundhunsen. (Poplar Island Press, Peiping.
5.50) Black Barbary. P. Turnbull (Hurst Blackett, London.,15/-). China at Bay W. L. Chester (Kelly Walsh, Shanghai. $3.50) "Heaven Knows" M. H. Brown (Edinburgh House Press, London. 2/6) Contract Bridge for Beginners J. Culbertson (Faber & Faber, London. 06/2 Beanties of Bridge M. Dixey Faber, London. 3/6) My Friends the Chinese C (Hamilton, London. 9/-)
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