Conversely, Iain Sinclair reviewed the book for the London Review of Books and wrote "This is an empty set, a set defined by its architecture... An increasingly silly catalogue of deaths and suicides announces the final surrender of the Golden Age Murder Mystery: Agatha Christie force-fed on Pevsner and the humbug of Kenneth Baker’s latest flag-waving anthology.
Conversely, Iain Sinclair reviewed the book for the London Review of Books and wrote "This is an empty set, a collection defined by its architecture... A list of absurd deaths and suicides signals the end of the Golden Age Murder Mystery: Agatha Christie subjected to Pevsner and Kenneth Baker’s latest pompous anthology.