I read this book thinking it would lay out some fundamental principles on how to create suspense. It didn't live up to my expectations. First off, it is too Hegelian (it goes on quite a bit about dialectical mish-mash involving thesis, antithesis and synthesis, and how contradiction is the stuff of life). I don't think I picked up any useful principles which I didn't already learn in a more clear presentation from Ayn Rand's The Art of Fiction or Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction.
Having said that, I did find the analysis of Ibsen's The Doll House illuminating.
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