SHORTER NOTICES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 13

SHORTER NOTICES.

Love's Lunatic. By Jim McCarter. j Dcaton and Spencer, Sydney. 28G pp. Although Mr McCarter's plot is painfully fictitious and his blundering in dialogue excruciatingly careful, there are lively and realistic scenes in this novel of Australian back-country life. (ij Queer Fish. By John C. Goodwin. (ii) Twelve Monstrous Criminals. By Philip Beaufoy Barry. (Hi) Rope, Knife, and Chair. By Guy B. H. Logan, (iv) Splendid Sons or Sin. By Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport. (v) Sidelights on Criminal Matters. By John C. Goodwin. (vi) Guilty or Not Guilty. By Guy B. H. Logan. True Crime Series: Rich and Cowan Ltd. (9d each.) Extraordinarily cheap reprints, though in paper covers, of books first issued at a high price, on crimes and criminals and criminal methods, trials, the technique of detection, and so on. i\) The Shadow Man. By John Goodwin, (ii) Red Sap. By John Easton. Putnam. (3/6 net each.) Mr Goodwin's excellent detective story, reviewed here on first publication, will please many new readers in its cheaper reprint form. "Red Sap" is another good reprint, an admirable blend of the thriller and the detective story, in which Mr Easton turns to account first-hand knowledge of Tibet. Sunk Without Trace. By Sydney M. Fackman. Hodder and Stoughton. 319 pp. From W. S. Smart. Mr Packman is an adept in the writing of romantic thrillers, and has done nothing better than this story of the adventures which.followed Roger Brodleton's discovery that he was working for a gang oi forgers. Kaspa the Lion Man. By C. T. Stoneham. Methuen. 254 pp. (3/6 net.) Though issued at reprint price, this is a new novel, the theme being the familiar strange one of a human child, fostered by a lioness, and developing into a lord of the jungle. Those who like this sort of thing, etc.