"Sexton Blake was Britain's comic-strip and dime-novel amalgamation of Sherlock Holmes and Dick Tracy. The characterization and background were Holmesian, but the serial-like thrills pure Tracy. Several Blake films were made in both silent and sound eras, but Blake remains a virtually unknown sleuth off his own turf. He has a worthy opponent here in the magnificent Tod Slaughter, Britain's leading stage and screen practitioner of Victorian melodrama. Like Fu Manchu, his residences are conveniently equipped with death traps--including a snake-filled dungeon." --W.K. Everson