Newgate Callendar in The New York Times: John Hutton's ACCIDENTAL CRIMES is a British police procedural about the sex murder of girls, but the author has attempted something more. In effect, he has written a character study of an educator -- a pedantic mediocrity, a liar and whiner, a hypocrite, a man who has ambitions not supported by ability. In short, a miserable wretch. He gets mixed up in one of the sex murder cases. We know he is innocent, but the police build up a convincing case after catching him in one lie after another. And so the noose starts settling over his head.