Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers: “does he come in ‘The Last Days of Pompeii’?”
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “After finishing the new novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the author of The Last Days of Pompeii, he conceded that “the author is doubtless a gifted being—but he has prostituted God’s noblest gifts to the vilest purposes.””