Bertram Atkey

[from review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sun., Jan 29, 1922]

IN LAMB'S CLOTHING

Winnie O'Wynn Outwits the Unsuspecting Wolves

Miss Winnie O'Wynn, in Bertram Atkey's "Winnio O'Wynn and the Wolves," picks her wolves with unerring skill when she seeks her fortune in London with an equipment of good looks, no training, an equal lack of scruples, quick wits and a hundred pounds sterling, twenty of them acquired by her first experience in blackmail.

Winnie is able at once to find spectacular crooks, who are out-crooked at their own game by the combination of ingeniousness and ingenuousness of the "little girl from the country." Her get-rich-quick schemes are given justification by her care in outwitting only those who try to outwit her. If the wolves will persist in regarding her as a lamb because her fleece is white as snow, why, Winnie will show them that the wolf-appetite may assume other disguises than that of Red Riding-Hood's grandmother.

Her picturesque adventures are amusingly set forth, and the author deserves a vote of thanks for not reforming her in the last chapter. Gay and unregenerate and triumphant, we take leave of her, some £25,000 to the good for six months hunting, and scanning the horizon with innocent blue eyes, seeking for more wolves to conquer.