which the author draws the
reader, now this way, now that, in the search for
the perpetrator of the mysterious crime with which
the story begins, and deludes him until he reaches
almost the last page."--_New Haven Palladium._

"Wilkie Collins, in his best period, never
invented a more ingeniously constructed plot, nor
held the reader in such suspense until the final
denouement. The most blase novel-reader will be
unable to put aside 'The Leavenworth Case' until
he has read the last sentence and mastered the
mystery which has baffled him from the
beginning."--_N. Y. Express._

"She has proved herself as well able to write an
interesting story of mysterious crime as any man
living."--_The Academy, (London.)_

"She has worked up a _cause celebre_ with a
fertility of device and ingenuity of treatment
hardly second to Wilkie Collins or Edgar Allen
Poe."--_Christian Union._

"We have read no story for a long time which has
had so much of the Wilkie Collins, and Edgar Allen
Poe flavor of reality in the
telling."--_Congregationalist._

"We do not propose to give the plot of the work,
however, but merely to say that it is one of the
most ingenious of the kind we have ever
read."--_Buffalo Express._

"This is the sort of book to be eagerly read and
thoroughly enjoyed."--_St. Paul Pioneer._

"A new novel by a new writer, which enchains our
attention from the very first sentence of the
first page, is a pleasant surprise. * * * Told
with a force and power that indicate great
dramatic talent in the writer."--_St. Louis Post._

"Its interest is undoubted and it is thoroughly
well sustained."--_N. Y. Evening Post._

"The story is developed with great skill and shows
ingenuity of the highest order."--_Troy Times._

"A story of mystery and crime and is here narrated
with an artistic skill which inevitably holds the
interest of the reader, even to the point of the
highest tension, to the close of the last chapter.
* * * A real marvel of fiction."--_Davenport
Gazette._

=A STRANGE DISA