"We greatly enjoyed the brisk dialogue and the unexpected ending."--_Evening Times._
"A decidedly clever bit of sensation, ... worked out with considerable resource. Altogether a fine thrill."--_Liverpool Courier._
"A vigorous and briskly moving yarn--the best thing of the kind we have encountered for some considerable time."--_Birmingham Daily Post._
"Enthralling, entertaining and powerful ... clean and wholesome, it is one of the most powerful novels we have had for a long time ... a fine mystery story most excellently told and holding its reader in its grasp from start to finish."--_Dublin Daily Express._
"A love story full of thrilling incidents."--_Country Life._
"Vigour and swing characterise the book, which has no dull pages, and which keeps its alluring secret until near the end."--_Glasgow Herald._
"Hats off to Raffles."--_Daily Telegraph._
+The House of Whispers+ _By William Le Queux_
"Mystery--tantalising and baffling."--_The Yorkshire Post._
"An excellent tale."--_The Daily Telegraph._
"Full of arresting situations and making a strong appeal at every stage to the instinct of curiosity."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._
"Mr. Le Queux will please thousands by this work."--_The Morning Leader._
+Treasure of Israel+ _by William Le Queux_
"Another of his wonderful mystery stories."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
"An admirably worked piece of sensationalism ... ought to please a host of readers."--_The Sunday Times._
"Mr. Le Queux keeps his readers fascinated to the end."--_The Yorkshire Post._
"The author is at his raciest; each chapter discloses some new phase of the mystery, each page supplies a new thrill of excitement."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._
+The House of the Whispering Pines+ _By Anna Katharine Green_
"The author has written nothing so good since her famous 'Leavenworth Case.' The story grips one from the first scene.... The book is crammed with incident ... there is not a dull page from first to last."--_The Outlook._
"So ingenious, plausible, dramatic, and well-thought-out a plot is a relief after the far-fetched absurdities of many tales of the kind. The most austere reader ... will find himself consumed with wonder as to whom the guilty man can be."--_The Evening Standard._