Anna Katharine Green

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....

In Lost Man's Lane, Gryce reaches out to Butterworth to help solve the secret behind several persons who have disappeared in a small country village, whose inhabitants happen to be the offspring of her childhood friend.

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante...

One of my Sons, published in 1901, is a classic whodunit tale of murder and mystery. Set in New York, a murder of a multi-billionaire brings about the recurring question "Which?", referring to which of his sons committed this despicable act of parricide....

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...

Anna Katharine Green was one of the first crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels. Among her prolific output are twelve novels featuring her main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force....

The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries is a series of three novels featuring Amelia Butterworth teaming up with Ebenezer Gryce. Miss Butterworth is a nosy high-society lady whose wealth and lack of family give her plenty of free time in which to solve several Victorian-era crimes....

Initials Only is set in New York, and purveys a certain atmosphere unique to that period. It revolves around the workings of the retired Detective Gryce and his assistant. A seemingly unsolvable mystery, a death by apparent suicide of an heiress, is investigated by the detectives....

Anna Katherine Green, the mother of the detective novel, introduces the world to the first "girl detective" in this delightful collection of nine stories published in 1915....

Before Nancy Drew, there was Violet Strange. When an investigation requires someone who can infiltrate a clique of young women, the firm hires Violet Strange....

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the community and reputation for good works....

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the communityand reputation for good works....

In A Strange Disappearance, we have a small cast of characters, richly described and all engaged in discovering how and why a servant woman has disappeared from Mr Blake’s mansion in the middle of the night....

Anna Katharine Green published her first mystery novel - The Leavenworth Case - in 1878, almost a decade before Sherlock Holmes made his appearance. Green's intrepid Ebenezer Gryce, a seasoned New York detective, takes up the case of a brutally murdered millionaire philanthropist....

A man is found dead in the study of his New York City house and Detective Gryce is called upon to deduce the how and why of his murder - if it is indeed a murder. With the assistance of Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must investigate the meaning of the meager clues....

During a high society party set in New York City in the early 1900s, a beautiful woman is murdered and her precious diamond stolen....

Newly married Mrs. Jeffrey is found in the library of the old family mansion dead with a pistol tied to her wrist, and everyone is suspect. The library in the family mansion has a reputation for harboring dead men, and no one knows how or why this is so....

A doctor preparing for his wedding is interrupted by a detective with an errand requiring great discretion. Can the doctor identify a mysterious woman at a hotel? He can. She is weeping...she is distraught...she is his fiancee....

A stranger describes just how a man might commit a murder and avoid detection - and only minutes later, the widow Clemmens is discovered struck down in her parlor by an unknown hand in circumstances eerily similar to those described by the stranger....

Love at first sight can be wonderful…unless you fall in love with a murderer. The local minister dies under mysterious circumstances and Dwight Pollard, indeed the whole Pollard family, are hiding something....