'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins
attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially,
perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy
of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of
genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story
writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and
cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent
economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it
seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father...
'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and
mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal
power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another
sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary
Supplement (1944)
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