"The Fashion in Shrouds" is probably the best detective story published this year. It is beautifully planned and written, and it contains a judicious mixture of ingredients…. [There] is the most admirable light relief provided by the extremely well-drawn character of the actress Georgia Wells, whose matrimonial adventures supply the book's theme, and by Lugg, Mr. Campion's delightful ex-convict factotum. This is a novel which may be thoroughly recommended even to those who normally eschew detective fiction.

"Detective Stories," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1938; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 1901, July 9, 1938, p. 467.∗