Price and jacket copy [for Later than You Think] might lead you to suspect a serious suspense story bordering on the straight novel. Don't be misled; this is a perfectly conventional whodunit of the feminine persuasion, verging on the Had-I-But-Known school, redeemed and revitalized by its setting in the Rift Valley, fifty miles from Nairobi, just after the Mau-Mau uprising—which apparently is known euphemistically in Kenya as "the Emergency." What seems to be first-hand depiction of the delicate tensions among white-settlers in this uneasy aftermath to violence manages to impart conviction and even distinction to an otherwise routine mystery-romance.

Anthony Boucher, in a review of "Later than You Think," in The New York Times (copyright © 1958 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), October 26, 1958, p. 57.