SOURCE: "The Head Hunter," in The New York Times Book Review, July 19, 1925, p. 13.

In the following review, the critic finds Wallace's The Hairy Arm to be an entertaining suspense novel.

In The Hairy Arm, Edgar Wallace, one of England's most prolific writers of mystery stories, has added another to his already long list of thrillers. Edgar Allan Poe's most famous murder tale undoubtedly supplied the germ idea of the book, but the story has its own ingenious complications. The denouement is totally unexpected when it does come, though all the while the master clue was as prominently displayed as is the warning semaphore arm over a railroad track.

The Hairy Arm deals with murders committed by a sort of Jack the Ripper, who has peculiarities all his own. He neatly slices off his victim's head, packs it in a cardboard box, sends a typewritten message to the police...