With a luxury hotel on the Riviera as a background, "Murder at th Miramar" (SkeMfington, London, 7/6 by Edmund Snell holds interest from the start, "The story opens with the murder of a visitor to the Miramar Hotel who is thrown from a balcony by a mysterious shrouded figure, and from then on there are enough éxelt; ineldents—including a second avid are well drawn, and the interchange of theories between a wealthy Ameri can business man, who fancies that he is a born detector of crime, and a retired British Colonial judge of fords much amusement—a2s,
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