SOURCE: A review of East India and Company, in The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. III, No. 46, June 11, 1927, p. 901.

In the following excerpt from a review of East India and Company, the critic lauds Morand's narrative technique and judges him a contemporary master of the exotic tale.

The jacket of this book [East India and Company] promises the reader "bizarre oriental adventures with the utmost ultra-modern European spices." There is nothing in it that can be called "spicy," as that adjective is usually applied to French novels. Indeed, it is in the class of innocuous novels of which the French publishers say, peut être mis entre toutes les mains.

"Bizarre oriental adventures," however, we find, and in good measure. Three ghost stories and four other corking good yarns for which China furnishes a brilliantly sketched background, a gruesome chapter on Malay poisons, stories in which a Spaniard lives...