Anna Katharine Green, 1846-1935
Biographical note
One of the first writers of detective fiction in America, distinguished by well plotted, legally accurate stories.
She is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth.
Works
Novels
- The Leavenworth Case [1878]
- A Strange Disappearance [1880]
- X Y Z : A Detective Story [1883]
- Hand and Ring [1883]
- The Mill Mystery [1886]
- 7 to 12 [1887]
- Behind Closed Doors [1888]
- The Forsaken Inn : A Novel [1890]
- A Matter of Millions [1891]
- Cynthia Wakeham's Money [1892]
- Marked "Personal" [1893]
- Miss Hurd--An Enigma [1894]
- Dr. Izard [1895]
- The doctor, his wife and the clock [1895]
- That Affair Next Door [1897]
- Lost Man's Lane : A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth [1898]
- Agatha Webb [1899]
- The Circular Study [1900]
- One of My Sons [1901]
- The Filigree Ball : being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair [1903]
- The Millionaire Baby [1905]
- The House in the Mist [1905]
- The Amethyst Box [1905]
- The Woman in the Alcove [1906]
- The Chief Legatee [1907]
- The Mayor's Wife [1907]
- The Sword of Damocles : A Story of New York Life [1909]
- Three Thousand Dollars [1910]
- The House of the Whispering Pines [1910]
- Initials Only [1911]
- Dark Hollow [1914]
- To the Minute, Scarlet and Black ; two tales of life's perplexities [1916]
- The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow [1917]
- The Step on the Stair [1923]
Short stories
- The Mystery of the Blue Wash (1889)
- The Old Stone House and other stories [1891]
- A Difficult Problem and other stories [1900]
- A Difficult Problem [1900]
- The Gray Madam [1899]
- The Bronze Hand [1897]
- Midnight in Beauchamp Row [1895]
- Staircase at The Heart's Delight [1894]
- The Hermit of ——— Street [1898]
- Room Number 3, and Other Detective stories / Anna Katharine Green
- The Golden Slipper, and other problems for Violet Strange [1915]
