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"L. G. Moberly, whose novel, 'A Change and a Chance,' will begin publication tomorrow, has already been represented by another story in our columns. He has the true gift of the story-teller—an onward-flowing natural style, which presents incidents picturesquely and concisely. He plunges straight into the heart of the plot. Two women are travelling north by train from the Riviera to Paris, one a pretty young Australian, going to England to meet her late husband's relatives for the first time; the other a beautiful criminal who is escaping from justice. The train is wrecked, and in the confusion the latter woman, seeing that her companion has been killed, takes the opportunity of changing papers and passports with her. Accordingly when she arrives in England she is able to pass herself off to the relatives as the authentic wife. Fortunately, the other woman was only newly married, and so the people in England have only the vaguest of information about her. True: they are somewhat taken aback to find the bush-dweller they had pictured to themselves materialise in such a beautiful and sophisticated form; but at first they quieten their misgivings. Then the scene changes to the south of Europe, where a new set of characters have as a background a villa among orange-groves. A sinister mystery hangs over this villa. It centres round the person of Suzanne Rocher, a French 'bonne a tout faire.' who creeps about by night and ransacks bureaux. Incidentally, it appears that the impostor who has taken the Australian girl's place used to live at the villa, and is suspected of having poisoned her husband. The contrast between the English and the Continental atmosphere is quite effective. The story contains the usual love interest, more than a dash of action, and the undercurrent of mystery that has been referred to."
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 1931, p10
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