I wish that I could express proper enthusiasm for Margery Allingham's ["Cargo of Eagles"] …; this is my final opportunity to review one of the great craftsmen of the English detective story. But this does seem to me to be one of her lesser efforts…. [It] was not a markedly interesting plot to start with and badly lacking in characters. There are good peripheral people, but the parties to the crime are vague sketches, and the action is slow.

Anthony Boucher, "Criminals at Large," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1968 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), January 28, 1968, p. 41.∗