"The author has chosen a department of fiction where only the best writers succeed, but she has shown herself capable of sustaining her role with wonderful vigor."—Boston Evening Traveller.
"It is an ingenious plot, admirably worked up, and told so straightforward as to be wholly pleasing."—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"One of the best police detective stories written in America."—Hartford Courant.
"Wilkie Collins would not be ashamed of the construction of this story. * * * It keeps the reader's close attention from first to last."—N. Y. Evening Post.
"A most ingenious and absorbingly interesting story. The readers are held spell-bound till the last page."—Cincinnati Commercial.
"Ingenious in construction, powerful in dramatic interest, and artistic in development."—Boston Gazette.
"A most intensely interesting work of fiction. The story is developed with skill, and the work written in a strong, powerful style."—Augusta (Me.) Farmer.
"The plot is new and sparkling, and the story is carried to its denouement with an ingenuity and brightness of manner that makes it impossible to lay the volume down until completed. * * * It is a marvel of fiction."—Columbus Sunday Capital.
"The plot is very ingenious. * * * The interest in the tale is remarkably well sustained until its conclusion, and the mystery which envelopes the principal character is concealed with a great deal of artistic skill. * * * Shows a spirit of patient research that speaks well for the industry of the writer, and an analytical faculty rarely seen in a woman."—Boston Courier.
X. Y. Z. A Detective Story. By Anna Katharine Green. 16mo, paper, 25 cents.