SOURCE: A review of The Angel of Terror, in The New York Times Book Review, April 12, 1922, p. 11.

In the following review, the critic praises Wallace's inventiveness in portraying a female villain in The Angel of Terror.

The author of [The Angel of Terror] has devised something new in fiction. He has reversed all the conventional methods of dealing with pretty girls and presents us with a heroine—or, to be accurate, a co-heroine—who is something very different in the heroine line. She is exquisitely beautiful, but her beauty is, indeed, only skin deep and it camouflages more sublimated essence of Satan than could be condensed out of a thousand ordinary heroines. Mr. Wallace's originality has gone even further than the usual endeavors of fiction writers to provide something a bit wicked in their feminine creations, for they are usually content to allow their wicked women to be...