"[3] The Sydney Review of Books wrote "it might be argued that where Cliff Hardy was concerned, his entry in The Dying Trade (1980) was his finest moment, no matter that more than forty appearances were to come.

Mark Thomas, writing in The Canberra Times noted: "Corris' work may appear derivative and stylised, but that is the nature of the thriller.

The reader wants to live off the sniff of a nuance, by determining how well the author can recount yet again the misadventures of a detective's encounters with high society...Corris succeeds in finding new angles and loopholes.

The Dying Trade is genuinely full of suspense, packed with violence, paced fast and well, and maintains at least some vestiges of plausibility in the story.

The descriptive elements of the novels are beautifully done, crisp, pointed, short, sharp, Corris was a master at the art of the precise and the pithy.