Lisa's Date with Density a child from Josh Weinstein's school days who everyday would get onto the bus with a piece of toast, which had Vaseline on it. A majority of the story is a reference to the film "Rebel Without a Cause". Lisa remarks that Nelson is "like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest", a reference to "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"; this was Winston Churchill's opinion of Russia at the outbreak of the World War II. In its original broadcast, "Lisa's Date with Density" finished 63rd in ratings for the week of December 9–15,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Companion to Crime Fiction" (2010) called "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" "The most spectacular reimagining of the sensation novel, and a crucial point in the genre's transformation into detective fiction". "A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945" (2001) described the book as "a lively and engaging crime novel which used its Melbourne setting to considerable effect." Geoffrey Blainey wrote in "A History of Victoria": "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" "did more than any book to give the outside world a picture of Melbourne of the late 1880s". David Stuart Davies featured the work in his book "Vintage