“[A] BREEZY FIRST MYSTERY…
A WIT IS BORN.”—MARILYN STASIO,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“VIGOROUS AND SEXY…
Barlow delivers hard-boiled utterances with tongue-in-cheek relish…the personable hero’s glee at happening upon a real, rather than a paper-and-ink case, is contagious.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STABBED REVIEW)
“WITTY AND STYLISH…
[Robert A. Carter] has created an engaging hero in Nicholas Barlow, a man of great charm and style, with a well-ordered life, a touch of old-fashioned formality, and a secret yearning to be one of the Hardy boys.”—RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
“HIGHLY LITERATE….
There is something refreshing about an amateur sleuth who solves a case without inane violence…. Possesses a degree of charm that keeps you reading it to the end.”—WEST COAST REVIEW OF BOOKS
“LITERATE, OBSERVANT, AND WITTY.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL