The Sunday Chronicle wrote: One of the best detective stories of today, written by a master of the craft.
qtd. in
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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Others praising the book (including James Agate
) once again commented that MA
had gone...
Literary responses
Margery Allingham
At a time that MA
had stopped writing both the film story and the mass-circulation serial, she saw herself as making another new start in her career with this book. She called it a novel...
Literary responses
Margiad Evans
Favourable newspaper reviews came from Compton Mackenzie
and James Agate
. The Daily Mail review pleased ME
particularly by reproducing her frontispiece (though they did not know it to be hers).