In the following essay, McQuilland discusses Wallace's writing process and gives an overall assessment of his books.

Watson was an English journalist and novelist who was known for his detective novels. In the following essay, he speculates that the wide popularity of Wallace's novels was due to predictable plots and characters, as well as the author's refusal to question middle-class tastes and morality.

MacCarthy was one of the foremost English literary and drama critics of the twentieth century. He served for many years on the staff of the New Statesman and edited Life and Letters. A member of the Bloomsbury group, which also included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey among its number, MacCarthy was guided by their primary tenet that "one' sprime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience, and the pursuit o...

In the following excerpt, Thomson analyzes the themes and patterns that recur in Wallace's novels.

In the following essay, Arnold compares the plot elements of Wallace's The Four Just Men to those in a novel by German writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Bentley was an English-born journalist and author best known for his detective novel Trent's Last Case (1913). In the following essay, Bentley praises Wallace's storytelling techniques, rendering of dialect, and knowledge of the British working classes

In the following review, the critic finds Wallace's The Hairy Arm to be an entertaining suspense novel.

In the following review, the critic notes Wallace's skill as a craftsman of the suspense novel.

Nathan has been called the most learned and influential drama critic the United States has yet produced. During the early decades of the twentieth century, he was greatly responsible for shifting the emphasis of the American theatre from light entertainment to serious drama and for introducing audiences and producers to the work of Eugene O'Neill, Henrik Ibsen, and Bernard Shaw, among others. Nathan was a contributing editor to H. L. Mencken's magazine the American Mercury and coeditor of the...

In the following review, the critic notes Wallace's flair for plotting, suspense, and humor in The Clue of the New Pin.

Grierson was an English-born author best known for his crime novels and nonfiction works on crime detection. In the following excerpt, he praises Wallace as a pioneer of the thriller genre and highlights the novelist's accurate depiction of the London underworld.

In the following review, the critic praises Wallace's inventiveness in portraying a female villain in The Angel of Terror.

In the following essay, the critic gives a favorable review of Wallace's The Girl from Scotland Yard, but faults Wallace for using "questionable" plot devices.