The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. For two months I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed to score in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the result was a decided loss in repute as well as great financial embarrassment. As I had a mother and two sisters to support and knew but one way to do it, I was in a state of profound discouragement. This was before I took up the morning papers. After I had opened and read them, not a man in New York could boast of higher hopes or greater confidence in his power to rise by one bold stroke...

I was riding along one autumn day through a certain wooded portion of New York State, when I came suddenly upon an old stone house in which the marks of age were in such startling contrast to its unfinished condition that I involun-tarily stopped my horse and took a long survey of the lonesome structure. Embowered in a forest which had so grown in thickness and height since the erection of this building that the boughs of some of the tallest trees almost met across its decayed roof, it presented even at first view an appearance of picturesque solitude almost approaching to desolation. But...

Anna Green was an early 20th century novelist. She was one of the first authors to write detective stories in America. Her stories are known for their well thought out plots and their legal accuracy. Although Green wrote in a genre previously dominated by men she did n think much of feminists and opposed women's suffrage. Her second novel A Strange Disappearance was published in 1880. Other books by Ana Green include: The House of the Whispering Pines, Miss Hurd, An Enigma, Leavenworth Case, That Affair Next Door, and Sword of Damocles

The Woman in the Alcove is Anna Green's best mystery story. Anna Green wrote at the beginning of the 20th century. She was an American poet and novelist. Green was one of the first to write detective fiction in America, Her work is known for its legal accuracy and well plotted story lines. Her novels include, The Leavenworth Case (1878), A Strange Disappearance (1880), Hand and Ring (1883), Behind Closed Doors (1888), Forsaken Inn (1890), Marked "Personal" (1893), and The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895). The Woman in the Alcove begins, "I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room...

The classic genre-defining whodunit, by the mother of the detective novel
Introducing the first American series detective, Ebenezer Gryce, The Leavenworth Case was published nine years before the debut of Sherlock Holmes, and made author Anna Katharine Green an enormously popular and influential writer who changed the mystery genre forever. Showcasing Green's verve and style, The Leavenworth Case opens with the shocking murder of Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy New York merchant, philanthropist, and well-known member of the community. His favorite niece, Mary, is to...

This volume of 4 Detectives brings together four early female detectives who use their formidable skills in crime-solving to track down and capture criminals of every variety. Madelyn Mack and her journalist pal Nora are particularly good at involved puzzles. Violet Strange helps others as an undercover detective while she makes enough money to solve a problem of her own. Miss Van Snoop has one very important criminal to catch, in the only short story she is featured in, while Florence Cusack and her friend Dr. Lonsdale star in five previously uncollected short stories. It's not just female...