 The critic who took Rathbone to task, for appearing to claim a superiority of approach to the professional historian, in dealing with such contentious historical material, was raising a question which Rathbone's career, and "The Mutiny", was dedicated to answering.For a man of wide intellectual interests Rathbone produced relatively little outside his long list of novels.Much travelled, and loving foreign places, he always aspired to produce volumes of travel writing, but nothing in this direction ever came to fruition commercially.