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"There is a lot of good detective work done in it of the romantic kind."
-The Independent [1909]

"Mr. Futrelle certainly has a knack of making a tangled skein and unraveling it quite simply. The atmosphere of the story - whether it be real or not - takes the reader out of himself and away from his conceived notions of Washington as a 'city of evasion and conventionalities.' "
-N. Y. Times [1909]