Author of Audiobooks - Anna Katharine Green
Hand and Ring - Anna Katharine Green
Hand and Ring - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigation is made and two equally plausible suspects are quickly unearthed. But is either guilty? And what role does...
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton's business concern. Nobody seems to have any clue as to how the vault can be...
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife.. - Summary by Carolin...
The House of the Whispering Pines - Anna Katharine Green
The House of the Whispering Pines - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the house. Hidden in the dark, he...
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon of August the 16th, from her...
The Bronze Hand - Anna Katharine Green
The Bronze Hand - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which might cause great unknown danger, Mr. Abbott is drawn into the midst of the conspiracy. (Introduction by...
The Defence of the Bride and Other Poems - Anna Katharine Green
The Defence of the Bride and Other Poems - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Poetry
Anna Katharine Green is now best-known for her popular mystery and detective stories, but she also wrote some excellent poetry. - Summary by Carolin...
Initials Only - Anna Katharine Green
Initials Only - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 β April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief appearance by her famous detective, Mr Gryce, but at the...
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a βstrangeβ crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City...
The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the mystery without causing a scandal?...
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is to be the companion to the Mayor's wife. The Lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is...
X Y Z - A Detective Story - Anna Katharine Green
X Y Z - A Detective Story - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances...
The Mill Mystery - Anna Katharine Green
The Mill Mystery - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mill. Almost immediately, rumors of suicide begin to circulate. But was it suicide? How could a devout man of...
That Affair Next Door - Anna Katharine Green
That Affair Next Door - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the place empty. Who was she and why was she in the empty house all alone?...
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive and left with the admonishment...
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiestβup to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate." Thus begins this mystery told by Anna...
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 β April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...
Lost Man's Lane - Anna Katharine Green
Lost Man's Lane - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime.The author of Lost Manβs Lane, Anna...
The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green
The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself.Being young, untrammeled, and naturally...
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual...
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she dashes over to...
Doctor Izard - Anna Katharine Green
Doctor Izard - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly Earleβs mother died of unknown...
Missing: Page Thirteen - Anna Katharine Green
Missing: Page Thirteen - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical scientist, a bride and groom, depend on...
The Leavenworth Case (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a female. Indeed, it was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who came to be known as 'the mother of the...
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender... (Summary by Carolin)...
At the Piano - Anna Katharine Green
At the Piano - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective...
Agatha Webb - Anna Katharine Green
Agatha Webb - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? Or would it be the cook, who died at about the same time? Or would it be the rich and well-connected Mr....
The Filigree Ball - Anna Katharine Green
The Filigree Ball - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which...
Dark Hollow - Anna Katharine Green
Dark Hollow - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years later, "a woman in purple" shows up at the house of Ostrander,...
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange - Anna Katharine Green
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection contains nine mysteries or problems for her to solve in an early example of the 'girl detective' by mistress...
The Amethyst Box - Anna Katharine Green
The Amethyst Box - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl...
The Forsaken Inn - Anna Katharine Green
The Forsaken Inn - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, "The Forsaken Inn" is a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing about what has happened. A young couple stays at the inn...
The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, but the technical excellence of her books caused several law schools to use The Leavenworth Case as a...
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow - Anna Katharine Green
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to Section II, the museum director...
The Chief Legatee - Anna Katharine Green
The Chief Legatee - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and was in all respects, so far as any one could see, a happy woman, satisfied with her choice and pleased with the...
The Thief - Anna Katharine Green
The Thief - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Short Stories
At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his pockets to the host to free himself of all suspicion, and the other gentlemen concur, except one, who...
The Woman in the Alcove (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Rita Van Arsdale falls in love and is proposed to by the gentleman Mr. Durand during a fancy high society party. She has landed the man of her dreams, but her wedding planning with Mr. Durand is interrupted by the beautiful Mrs. Fairbrother who is...