Hugh Greene offers a new and delicious selection of period goodies: more triumphs from those case books of the rivals of Shrelock Holmes. Here, among oters, refined lady detectives, like Miss Loveday Brooke and Miss Dora Myrl, the insufferablybumptios Dick Donovan and the vegetarian hypohondriac Thorpe hazell outflank assorteddevilries from Yorkshire to Cornwall.