SOURCE: "A Macabre Tale of Murder in Vienna," in The New York Times Book Review, April 20, 1930, p. 7.

In the following review, Feld lauds the storytelling technique Perutz employs in The Master of the Day of Judgment.

Leo Perutz, author of The Master of the Day of Judgment, was born in Prague and later emigrated to Vienna. According to Dr. Fritz Wittels, who has written an illuminating introduction to the book, the literature of Perutz is saturated with the "curiously somber and mysterious character" of this strangely fascinating metropolis of present-day Czechoslovakia built by Germans in the midst of a Slav population. Tales of adventure and horror, he says, breed there and recall the fact that Gustav Meyrink's Golem had its action laid in the medieval Ghetto of Prague. It is an extremely interesting foreword and prepares the mind of the reader for the compelling tale of mystery which...