Frank G. Slaughter Summary

Critical Essay by Margaret Wallace ["That None Should Die"] is an unusual novel about medicine in the United States. It is a story no layman could have told—that no layman, for t... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Match From "In a Dark Garden" to "The Road to Bithynia," Dr. Slaughter has projected many best-selling historical novels against the background o... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Match "Florida has played a strange part in this war," observes a character in ["Storm Haven"]. "Her ports were occupied, or blockaded, al... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles Lee ["The Scarlet Cord"] is the best biblical novel that Frank G. Slaughter has written to date. Based on the Book of Joshua, it abounds in action, adventure, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Chad Walsh In "The Crown and the Cross," Frank G. Slaughter … has written yet another fictionized life of Christ. Inevitably one asks, Why another? Does the aut... Read more

Critical Essay by Rex Lardner Days after some puzzling human deaths at sea, rats scurry down the gangway of an ancient tramp steamer as it docks in Manhattan. The captain, victim of a disease contrac... Read more

Critical Essay by Newsweek It is far too early in the new year to be picking the worst novel of 1961, yet ["Epidemic!", a] loco melodrama about Communists exploiting the bubonic plague ... Read more

Critical Essay by Choice [God's Warrior, a] biographical novel of Paul the Apostle, is the work of a well-known author … who is also an impressively informed Biblical scholar. Slaughter... Read more

Critical Essay by Susannah Clapp Novels featuring real historical characters often fall into a fly-on-the-wall category in which a character innocent of actual existence is sent to saunter among the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Christine B. Vogel There's some good news and some bad news about Doctors at Risk. The good news is that Frank Slaughter thoroughly examines the disturbing subject of "... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Wallace Dr. Frank Slaughter is now Major Slaughter of the Army Medical Corps, and the wonder is that he finds time to write novels at all. So it is probably ungrateful to w... Read more

Critical Essay by New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review To be properly prepared, the reader should come to a Frank G. Slaughter book with clean hands—not merely washed but scrubbed in an ... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Match The million or so people who read "In a Dark Garden" four years ago will be glad to know that Dr. Julian Chisholm (surgeon, Confederate States Army) got ... Read more