 In Dorothy Sayers's 1926 detective novel "Clouds of Witness", Lord Peter Wimsey goes through the possessions of a murdered man – a young British man living in Paris, whose morality had been put in question.Finding a copy of "South Wind" Wimsey remarks "Our young friend works out very true to type".In Robert McAlmon's "Being Geniuses Together", he mentions meeting Norman Douglas in Venice in 1924, by which time he says "South Wind" was a minor classic.