Anna Katharine Green Books
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A Difficult Problem
[english | 1900]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [Run-of-the-mill detection in which a murderer is tracked down by the unnamed narrator in record time. No surprises here.]
Genres: [short story | mysterydetective] Downloads: 235
A Strange Disappearance
[english | 1880]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [A housekeeper reports the disappearance of a sewing-maid from a wealthy household. She insists that the girl has been abducted. Mr Gryce and a young detective investigate. The missing young woman has a secret. But she is not the only one]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 400
Agatha Webb
[english | 1899]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [Really good mystery tale. Anna Katharine Green is often credited as the author who first popularized detective fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle went out of his way to meet her when he first toured the US. I have read about five of her books and they are a little hit and miss with some a little too formulaic and predictable. Agatha Webb is masterful and engaging.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | fiction and literature] Downloads: 491
Cynthia Wakeham Money
[english | 1892]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... we will be married, and-. Frank, what a love you have for me. a love which questions nothing, not even my past, notwithstanding I say it is that ...... is necessary for us to answer you, said Emma, while Hermione, with a flash in her eye, motioned him imperiously down, saying as she slowly followed ...... it to-night. Then if you wish to come again- her smile completed the sentence....]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 498
Dark Hollow
[english | 1914]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... the corners or even to make the furniture about them distinguishable. Halting with one accord in what seemed to be the middle of the uncarpeted floor, ...... holding out her meagre arms in late defence of the secret to save which she had just seen a man die. Let us do as he wished, she prayed. I feel ...... one. A sound of steady breathing, accompanied by a few impatient movements, ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 476
Hand And Ring
[english | 1883]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [Another great old 19th Century mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green. In the town of Sibley in New York the widow Clemens is attacked right after a group of friends including the local District Attorney had just concluded a discussion about crimes of this type. Before she dies she cries out: Hand! Ring! Later during the coroners inquest suspicion falls on one man who stood to benefit from her ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 475
Initials Only
[english | 1911]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... of the crowd as he could. There were new murmurs all about us. If it's a case of heart-failure, why send for the police. asked one. It is better ...... table or pass by it in either direction till after the alarm given by her fall. But a bullet calls for no approach. A man at X. might raise and fire ...... you. Possibly, death tells its own story. I only know how I felt.. Perhaps ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | audiobook] Downloads: 226
Lost Man Lane
[english | 1898]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... no case has any clue ever come to light as to their fate. That is the matter as it stands before the police to-day.. A serious affair, I remarked. ...... I could faintly see in the distance. It would not do for me to ask, nor was it wise for me to show that I thought this reception a strange one. ...... her protest so much weaker than her appearance had given token of. Oh. he ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 475
Midnight In Beauchamp Row
[english | 1895]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... to its deep, sloping roof and small bediamonded windows it had a lonesome look at night, notwithstanding the crimson hall-light which shone through ...... ride over to Fairbanks to-night. Mr. Pierson has given me an imperative order to conclude a matter of business there, and it is very important that ...... she would have to stay alone, and he only hoped she would be brave and go ...]
Genres: [short story | mysterydetective | audiobook] Downloads: 479
One Of My Sons
[english | 1901]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [Daddys Boy: A Sons Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father is a 1989 book written by American author Chris Elliott and published by the Dell Publishing in the United States. The book is a parody celebrity memoir fictionalizing the authors childhood experiences as the son of comedian Bob Elliott.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | mysterydetective] Downloads: 310
Room Number 3
[english | 1909]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... checkers were on, which evidently was not so on this night. Had she turned her head to peer into those shadows. It was not likely. She was supported by ...... at some question I asked, but they won't talk. There's a conspiracy somewhere. I'm as sure of it as that I am standing here.. Nonsense. What should ...... raised the least alarm.. I'm afraid you're right. I lost my head like ...]
Genres: [short story collection | mysterydetective] Downloads: 465
Room Number 3 And Other Detective Stories
[english | ]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [Room Number 3 by Anna Katharine Green. A collection of detective stories by the author credited as one of the first writers in the genre in America.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 352
That Affair Next Door
[english | ]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... was within ear-shot. Of the other people I took small note, save of the honest scrub-woman, of whose red face and anxious eyes under a preposterous ...... the color of her gloves? I do not think she wore any gloves on leaving it was very warm, and she held them in her hand. I remembered this, ...... Why, sir? What should I know about her habits? Is not that a ring I see now on your ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 257
The Bronze Hand
[english | 1897]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [I enjoyed this short story and recommend it to others. It is well written with a good story plot.]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 30
The Chief Legatee
[english | 1906]Anna Katharine Green
Excerpts: [... leave me for good. She has too much self-respect to say nothing of her very positive and not to be questioned affection for myself.. The detective ...... was hopeless so far as he was concerned. No, he repeated, this time with unmistakable emphasis, she has always appeared buoyant and untrammeled. But ...... writing and compared it with that of the note which had been thrust into ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | thriller] Downloads: 147
The Circular Study
[english | 1900]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [I agree this detective story has an unusal start and the end is very emotional. Not excellent but a good mixture: typical of the mysteries of that time it needs improbable or extreme conditions to work out extreme stupidities of youth in this case (suicide and not to know the difference between murder and justifyable homicide).]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 387
The Doctor His Wife And The Clock
[english | 1895]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [The Doctor His Wife And The Clock by Anna Katharine Green. There is a murder a blind physician confesses himself the murderer and to prove that he could shoot a man through the heart offers to hit a small clock placed at a suitable distance guided only by the sound it makes in striking. The ending is horrible enough to suit even the boy in German folklore who complained that he could not shudder.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | thriller] Downloads: 494
The Filigree Ball
[english | 1903]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [This was terrific! It soon becomes clear that what at first seems so obvious is not obvious at all. It really keeps you turning the pages! I really like Anna Katherine Green. She can out plot Agatha Christie when she wants to do so. I am pleased that her works are available on Manybooks.]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 311
The Forsaken Inn
[english | 1889]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [My Forsaken Star or My Star in What Sky are English names used to refer to the Korean-language autobiography of Annie Park. The books English subtitle was Question Forever. Park the Eurasian daughter of a South Korean prostitute and an American soldier stationed in South Korea found out about her mothers occupation one night at age six by following her to work as Park returned home that same ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | mysterydetective] Downloads: 292
The Golden Slipper
[english | 1915]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [The Golden Slipper is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. It is Aarne-Thompson type 510A the persecuted heroine.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story collection] Downloads: 480