[1] It was one of a number of stand-alone novels he wrote alongside his series featuring the private detective Roger Sheringham.

[2] Maurice Percy Ashley in the Times Literary Supplement observed "In his new novel Mr. Anthony Berkeley has evidently set out to show that a detective story dealing with politics need not be dull.

While Cecil Day-Lewis writing under his pen name Nicholas Blake in The Spectator considered that "Mr. Berkeley has also temporarily lost his length.

Death in the House is badly overpitched, offering us a murder-method so fanciful that any schoolboy could crack it for six.

He transpires he has been killed by curare after receiving a threatening warning from a group ordering him not to proceed with a controversial Bill.