A powerful study of an unusual but believable scoundrel, here is something new in criminal fiction depending for its interest not upon ingenious clues or swift deduction but upon the complexities of human character. The love of an adoring wife for a husband she knows to be a complete rotter is presented without exaggeration. Although the fascinating problem presented by the author is strange and baffling, he never loses his grip of reality. (Reclametekst in Albatross 202 uit 1934)