The novel is an attack on the proud intellectualism of over-ratiocinative Jews (and others).
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick (Dial "M" for Murder) Knott is more of a will-he-do-it than a whodunit, but this ratiocinative thriller never lacks for high-voltage suspense.
Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet simple.