The Anna Katharine Green Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 35 Classic Mystery Novels & Stories

by Anna Katharine Green

The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack selects 35 novels and stories by the classic author, including the complete Amelia Butterworth series and the complete Violet Strange series. If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan -- she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.)

THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOOR

LOST MAN’S LANE

THE CIRCULAR STUDY

X Y Z: A DETECTIVE STORY

THE OLD STONE HOUSE

A MEMORABLE NIGHT

THE BLACK CROSS

A MYSTERIOUS CASE

SHALL HE WED HER?

THE AMETHYST BOX

THE HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE RUBY AND THE CALDRON

THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK

SHALL HE MARRY HER?

AGATHA WEBB

THE BRONZE HAND

THE CHIEF LEGATEE

CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

THE GRAY MADAM

MIDNIGHT IN BEAUCHAMP ROW

THE STAIRCASE AT THE HEARTS DELIGHT

THE HERMIT OF ——— STREET

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE GOLDEN SLIPPER"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE SECOND BULLET"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "AN INTANGIBLE CLUE"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE GROTTO SPECTRE"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE DREAMING LADY"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN"

VIOLET STRANGE IN "VIOLET’S OWN"

THE WOMAN IN THE ALCOVE

THE LEAVENWORTH CASE

A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

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Genres: Mystery

1964 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) 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. Born in Brooklyn, New York, her early ambition was to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books. She was in some ways a progressive woman for her time-succeeding in a genre dominated by male writers-but she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and she was opposed to women's suffrage. Her other works include A Strange Disappearance (1880), The Affair Next Door (1897), The Circular Study (1902), The Filigree Ball (1903), The Millionaire Baby (1905), The House in the Mist (1905), The Woman in the Alcove (1906), The House of the Whispering Pines (1910), Initials Only (1912), and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917).

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first book in this anthology called "Amelia Butterworth in That Affair Next Door". I had never heard of the author but apparently she was one of the first American women to write mysteries (or "detective fiction") and was a best selling author at the turn of the 20th century. According to Wikipedia she was popular a decade before Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes and apparently Amelia Butterworth influenced Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. This particular book was originally published in 1897 so the style is more turgid and wordy than is usual but it is eminently readable. The protagonist, Miss Butterworth, is certainly not a sweet little old lady spinster sort of detective but feisty and funny in that she's so sure of her rightness in all things that it's a delight to follow her along the garden path to a dead end. There were more red herrings in the plot than in any fish market and I got quite lost at the end. I'm not sure if it even really made sense, but like a crazy quilt, all the odd pieces, gathered here and there, and somehow cobbled together, made a decent enough pattern.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Victorian romance only a woman could write.

If you're into romance novels, the Victorian era cannot be excluded from your library. Anna Katherine Green was a mistress of love, mystery and suspense.

[Dorothy Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant!

In more ways than one _so pleased to have hit on this hitherto unknown author of mid _19th Century America. Not only great mysteries but insight into the times of great wealth miserable poverty villainy high society and cunning detectives Well done kindle too for offering this wonderful long read for just 77pence Anna Katherine Green I salute you