| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 110. Ap. ’07. |
“This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”
| − | Arena. 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w. |
“Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model, but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
| + | Bookm. 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w. |
“The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”
| − | Lit. D. 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w. | |
| + − | Nation. 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w. |
“Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description, written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual entertainment except its exciting story.”