135:, there were suggestions of Ellery Queen’s mentality; and his drawl was rather patterned on that of Philo Vance. Under certain lights his profile blatantly implicated Lord Peter Wimsey, while his passion for neatness was inherited from Hercule Poiret. Sherlock Holmes, being dead, was above suspicion. Then Blackburn grew up and took on an individuality of his own. But it took radio to make a really new man of Jeffrey. "
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said "Afford has worked out his murders and an ingenious mystery plot with painstaking diligence, and although his scholarly, if colorless, sleuth, Jeffery
Blackburn, jumps to many astonishing conclusions on hopelessly inadequate data, he is capable at times of very sound deduction".
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