Literary Significance and Criticism
"A great achievement, despite some critics' carping. The people, the motive, the cipher, and the detection are all topnotch. Here, too, is the first (and definitive) use of hemophilia as a misleading fact. And surely the son, the mother, and her self-deluded gigolo are definitive types."
All the chapter heads feature quotes from the works of dramatist and poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
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