“The basis and material used in the tale is excellent and would make a capital short story.”
+ − Boston Transcript p9 Ja 26 ’21 150w
“A not too lurid mystery interestingly built up and broken down, in a rapid, easy narrative style.”
+ Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The only marked defect is the author’s attempt to force the reader’s suspicions on characters whose guilt, if ultimately proved by the story, would shock any decent sense of plausibility.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p11 N 27 ’20 70w
“He has written so well, made his people so living and so pleasant, handled his subject so surely, that it is difficult to think of this book as a maiden essay.”
+ N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 580w
“Among the better of the new detective tales, ’32 calibre,’ early arouses the interest of the reader and holds it through a series of adventures, with the solution of the mystery not even indicated until the close.”