The Spanish Lady
$2.50 By LIPPINCOTT
FREQUENT references to the Spanish War, commando raids, Home Guards, and blackouts fail to counteract the atmosphere of costume romance which inevitably pervades any novel in which the heroine wears a mantilla and the hero wields a rapier. This romance is set in a magnificently described panorama of Scottish hills, and concerns the adventures of a Commando officer on sick leave. The Highland atmosphere rehabilitates Captain Listed to the point where he is accused of murdering the local laird, on not too unreasonable evidence. A great deal of flamboyant Celtic conversation and amusing local color precedes the homicide. The Spanish Lady should not be read as a murder mystery, having been written as a poetic love story in modern dress; but it cannot be denied that the action is noticeably enlivened by the appearance of the corpse.