The English author who rolled up an American public by lively stories of young folks working and playing in ballet shoes, tennis shoes and circus shoes, widens that audience by a genuine thriller such as ten-year-olds love….

["The Secret of the Lodge"] pleases children by the reliance it places on children's quick wits and bravery, but it does not overestimate either: children really are quick and brave. Ten-year-old excitement in such English and such humor is worth noting.

May Lamberton Becker, "Four Kinds of Mystery," in New York Herald Tribune Books, November 10, 1940, p. 30.∗