"STAR" NEW SERIAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12406, 26 August 1918, Page 4

"STAR" NEW SERIAL

“SCARHAVEN KEEP.” (By J. S. FLETCHER.) Our new serial will commence in next Monday’s issue, and in future an instalment will be published daily instead of twice weekly. The story, which is written in Mr Fletcher’s best style, is full of exciting incidents, and. the reader's interest is sustained to the finish. A brief synopsis is as follow's : » Tire mysterious disappearance of & well-known actor, who has visited an out of the way coastal village, gives rise to tho peculiar detective story written round Scarhaven Keep, a ruin on the estate of Marston Greyle. 'Hie actor was not known in the village, and the only clue to the mystery is a remark he had made to a man in tho village that he had met a man in America of that name. Marston Greyle however, denies ever having seen the actor. Greyle’s steward, Ohatfield, who has been the servant of the family for years, and who had brought Marston Greyle to Scarhaven when ho arrived from America to take over the estate, behaves in n peculiar manner, and when the body of the missing actor is discovered, suspicions are centred on him and his master. There is, however, no evidence to connect them with the actor’s death, the circumstances of which suggest an accident, and it is in the working out of the case and the final detection of the real criminals that “Scarhaven Keep” justifies its claims as an exciting and absorbing story.