Grost states that "Helen Vardon's Confession" (1922) "is another bad Freeman novel suffering from offensive racial stereotypes," Helen Vardon is blackmailed into marrying the fat, old, moneylender Otway, who was "distinctly Semitic in appearance", and is surrounded by Jews, to save her father from prison. Otway acts in bad faith, and is grasping, keeping only one servant despite his great wealth. The whole plot is a gratuitously offensive anti-Semitic stereotype. Grost also states that the use of racial stereotypes in "The D'Arblay Mystery" (1926) "marks it as a low point in Freeman's fiction." However, the villain is not Jewish at all, and the only question of stereotypes comes up in the questions about whether the villains (false) hooked nose is "a curved Jewish type or, or a squarer Roman nose?" There are no anti-Semitic tropes in the book, no grasping money-lender etc. Grost describes "Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke" (1931), as degenerating into "another of Freeman's anti-Semitic diatribes". In this novel the villains are largely Jewish, and come from the community of "unfit aliens" that Freeman lambastes in "Social Decay and Regeneration".