Julian Symons does not repeat himself: each novel stands alone on its own credentials, which are usually impressive. Thus The Blackheath Poisonings …, "A Victorian Murder Mystery." So effectively does Symons conjure up the Blackheath suburb of London, with Albert House and Victoria Villa and the family that lived and died—of arsenic—there in the 1890's, that the join between fiction and history is seamless. (pp. 11-12)

Allen J. Hubin, "AJH Reviews: 'The Blackheath Poisonings'," in The Armchair Detective (copyright © 1979 by The Armchair Detective), Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 1979, pp. 11-12.