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==Literary significance and criticism==
In their review of Crime novels (revised edn 1989), the US writers Barzun and Taylor comment that the novel is "Not near the top of her form, but remarkable as a treatment of the newly wedded and bedded pair of eccentrics ... with Bunter in the offing and three local characters, chiefly comic. Peter's mother – Dowager Duchess of Denver – Peter's sister, John Donne, a case of vintage port, and the handling of "corroded sut" provide plenty of garnishing for an indifferent murder, even if we weren't also given an idea of Lord Peter's sexual tastes and powers under trying circumstances."<ref name="COFC">Barzun, Jacques and Taylor, Wendell Hertig.  ''A Catalogue of Crime''. New York: Harper & Row.  1971, revised and enlarged edition 1989.  {{ISBN|0-06-015796-8}}</ref>

[[Raymond Chandler]], in his essay "[[The Simple Art of Murder]]," satirized a number of classic detective stories, and he chose this one among Sayers's novels to mock for the complicated murder method: "a murderer who needs that much help from Providence must be in the wrong business" <ref>[https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20140930/html.php Raymond Chandler, ''The Simple Art of Murder'' (1950) at The Faded Page, HTML version.]</ref>