Anna Katharine Green

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Anna Katharine Green - Dark Hollow

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...

Ernst Pattynama and 7 more 9 hours 35 minutes

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Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

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...

gothicaf and 7 more 9 hours 30 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Cynthia Wakeham's Money

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...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 46 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Mill Mystery

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...

Jacquerie 7 hours 43 minutes

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Detective Fiction

422

Anna Katharine Green - Millionaire Baby

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...

Dawn Larsen 7 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

502

Anna Katharine Green - Mayor's Wife

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...

Christian Mitchell and 10 more 7 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

513

Anna Katharine Green - Chief Legatee

«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...

Tony Oliva 7 hours 1 minute

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Detective Fiction

587

Anna Katharine Green - Woman in the Alcove

«I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up 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...

Wina Hathaway and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

460

Anna Katharine Green - Forsaken Inn

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...

Richard Kilmer 6 hours 31 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Circular Study

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in...

Jacquerie 6 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – 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...

Nichole Karl and 8 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor Izard

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...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 1 minute

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