Morris was tutored by J. I. M. Stewart
, a literary scholar who is perhaps better known as Michael Innes, a writer of detective fiction.
Literary responses
Margaret Forster
The reception of this book was modestly controversial. MF
expressed her confidence that her subject himself would have approved. Two eminent academics in English Literature flatly disagreed over it. John Carey
in the Sunday Times...
Reception
Margery Allingham
Early critics of MA
's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake
and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers
and...
