SOURCE: "London Dope Runners," in The New York Times Book Review, January 24, 1926, p. 9.

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

One of the most remarkable aspects of the writers of the modern American popular fiction is their amazing fruitfulness. These facile craftsmen turn out countless novels year after year without ever seeming to run dry. For a month or two their books are displayed on the shelves and in the windows of the Booksellers and then are seen no more. In theme these pleasant ephemers of the fiction world cover a wide variety of subjects. They include tales of the sea, the Far West, murder mysteries, divorce and society scandal. And each of these, it would seem, has its own coterie of readers, for the books sell and make money for the author and publisher alike.

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