“A new and improved form of the detective story.”
+ Ind. 61: 223. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Capital reading for a leisure hour or two.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Chamblin, Jean. Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.
“The trick of pitching an unpretentious story in just the right key is rare enough to entitle Jean Chamblin’s placid little idyl of the Azores, ‘Lady Bobs, her brother and I’, to a word or two of cordial commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“She has a facile and humorous pen and her letters are literature.”
+ Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pity that Miss Chamblin has felt it necessary to resort to meaningless slang and cheap humor in order to enliven her heroine’s letters.”