Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
| Dial. 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 110w. |
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1133. My. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most part, however, remains outside.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 320w. |
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them, ‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story, the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the ‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
| + | Reader. 5: 496. Mr. ‘05. 370w. |
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 160w. |