SOURCE: A review of The Master of the Day of Judgment, in The London Mercury, Vol. XXI, No. 123, January, 1930, pp. 272-73.

In the following excerpt, Lloyd reviews The Master of the Day of Judgment, asserting that the quality of the English translation preserves the tone, style, and atmosphere of Perutz's carefully crafted prose.

We are grateful for the translation that allows us to read the Master of the Day of Judgment: and we are particularly grateful to Mr. Hedrig Singer who has so well converted the original German of Herr Leo Perutz that it is possible for us to feel the force of atmosphere so powerfully. The obliquities of translation scarcely intrude themselves. For an atmosphere of real growing tension and horror it would be hard to find many equals in similar books of recent years. The use of the graphic present, which so often sounds unreal in...