Detective Mysteries - Ultimate Collection: 48 Novels & Detective Tales in One Volume : Including That Affair Next Door, Lost Man's Lane, The Circular Study, The Mill Mystery EPUB

This unique edition of carefully collected detective mysteries has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories.

Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".

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.

Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". Table of Contents:Amelia Butterworth Series:That Affair Next DoorLost Man's LaneThe Circular StudyMystery Novels:The Leavenworth CaseA Strange DisappearanceX Y Z: A Detective StoryHand and RingThe Mill MysteryThe Forsaken InnCynthia Wakeham's MoneyAgatha WebbOne of My SonsThe Filigree BallThe Millionaire BabyThe Chief Legatee'The Woman in the AlcoveThe Mayor's WifeThe House of the Whispering PinesThree Thousand DollarsInitials OnlyDark HollowThe Mystery of the Hasty ArrowNon Detective Novel:The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York LifeShort Stories:The Old Stone House and Other StoriesA Difficult Problem and Other StoriesRoom Number 3 and Other Detective StoriesThe Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange