“The villain is too villainous to be true, and the hero too amiable to engage sympathy; the heroine is simply a nice girl in an awkward position.”
– Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“It would be a safe prediction that the people who have liked Mr. Benson’s other books will like this new one even better.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 170w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“There is just a tinge here of that diabolism toward which Mr. Benson seems to have a bent.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Mr. Benson is a writer who never quite gets the effect at which he seems to be aiming. The book would be twice as interesting if it were half as long.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
Benson, Godfrey R. Tracks in the snow: being the history of a crime; ed. from the Ms. of the Rev. Robert Driver. †$1.50. Longmans.
The rector of an English country parish has recorded the story of the mysterious murder of his friend and neighbor, Eustace Peters and the unravelling of the mystery to which certain tracks of heavy boots found in the snow furnish the chief clue. It is from this manuscript that the present thrilling detective story with its mazes of suspicions, its strange adventures and narrow escapes is supposed to have been edited.