Somewhere along the River, down past the Pool, the Death Maker has a laboratory--a germ-farm crawling alive with all the most hideous disease cultures you can think of. The maker of death has cultivated enough sudden death in this germ-farm to wipe out London in a night, and all Britain in a week. As we follow the intrepid Maine through the inner heart of Chinatown, there comes a feeling that sandbags descending from upper windows upon the passer-by are by no means beyond the range of possibility. It is all very well done--very convincing--and the reader will give thanks for Scotland Yard and men like Kellard Maine. THE DESERT THOROUGHBRED By JACKSON GREGORY, author of "Desert Valley." "The Wilderness Trail," etc. In Jackson Gregory's latest and greatest story two lonely souls on their respective oases--widely separated by miles of burning desert sand--found one another after much adventure and tribulation. They came within an ace of disaster and death; Lasalle, outcast from his fellow men for a supposed murder, Camilla, bereft of protection, wandering in the desert. A powerful drama of the open spaces. THE D'ARBLAY MYSTERY By R. AUSTIN FREEMAN, author of "The Red Thumb-mark," "The Singing Bone," etc. The discovery of a murdered man; the criminal unknown; the complete absence of clues; everything, in fact, which brings Thorndyke into his own, opens this absorbing mystery. He accumulates unnoticed evidence in his best manner, and leads his investigations up to a startling _dénouement_, which comes as a complete surprise. SECRET HARBOUR By STEWART EDWARD WHITE, author of "Arizona Nights," etc. "X. Anaxagoras, Healer of Souls," found that his cure for indifference to life must be repeated on his brother-in-law, Roger Marshall. So he prescribed strenuous living and furious excitement. In that extraordinary and mysterious manner of his, he got to work, and deciding that Marshall would benefit by becoming a criminal, he arranged a neat crime for him. Stewart Edward White, whose own life has consisted mainly of action and excitement, has surpassed himself in this story of adventure in Canadian waters. COUSIN JANE By HARRY LEON WILSON, author of "Ruggles of Red Gap," etc. Harry Leon Wilson's humour and charm find new and productive investment in "Cousin Jane." She was a young woman ill-suited to settle down among relatives who lived on the departed glory of a Californian fortune made in the 'sixties. Jane had inherited something of the pioneer spirit which found that fortune, and she salved something of the wrecked estate and gained for herself a place in the new age which had come while she worked. THE LAW OF THE TALON By LOUIS TRACY, author of "The Gleave Mystery," etc.