“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of perspective are unfailingly observed.”
| + + + | Outlook 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Accomplice. [†]$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man) has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w. |
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is unraveled.”
| + | Ind. 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w. |