Literary Significance and Reception
As this book was not published through the usual channels or available to buy in shops until 1936, there were no reviews of the original publication.
Robert Barnard: "Mostly semi-supernatural stories. In this setting, Witness for the Prosecution stands out as the jewel it is: surely this is the cleverest short story she wrote. Of the others, the best is perhaps The Call of Wings, but that, depressingly, was one of the very first things she wrote (pre-First World War). In this mode she got no better."
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