Ed McBain's "Til Death" … nobly upholds the traditions of the 87th Precinct: it is a fresh, human, humorous, exciting novel about a vivid and unusual situation—in this case a series of attempts to erase the bridegroom during a wedding and the following reception…. McBain tells a fine suspense story (despite one coincidence too many for purists) while giving an almost anthropological report on an American folk institution.

Anthony Boucher, in a review of "Til Death," in The New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1959, p. 26.