REVIEWS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4008, 14 July 1931, Page 5

REVIEWS.

McLean Investigates. By George Goodchild. Publishers: Hodder and Stoughton. George Goodchild has made McLean well known in many of his novels of crime. Again we meet him in the collection of “cases,” which comprise “McLean Investigates.” McLean again and again proves too quick and clever even for the master crooks who hatch subtle coups and geta-ways, only t O . find, at last, a pair of “braceVets” on their wrists, and Portland in the horizon. His disguises are many. Truly he plays many parts convincingly and as to the manner born. The stage’s loss is Scotland Yard’ls great gain. Long may McLean prosper. The Wishing Stone. By F- L- Penny. Publishers: Hodder and Stoughton. "India is an open book to F. EPenny. “The M ishinig Stone is but another proof of how well she knows this country and her people. • Mrs Penny has an easy, fluent style and the gift of imagination, so necessary to the writer who deals with Ijhe occult and the pagan worship of the great forces of Nature. Dick Dangerfield made a great mistake when he allowed his judgment to become clouded by jealousy and pique, leaving Elaine, to go on an aimless trip in Southern India. Attracted for a time by the wiles of Daphne, a neurotic and pampered Anglo-Indian, he soon sees through her ©elfish, shallow character, and at the right moment Elaine appears, and all is well once more.