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Anna Katharine Green
1846–1935
A pioneer of American detective fiction, she helped shape the mystery novel with intricate plots, courtroom logic, and sharp attention to clues. Her stories introduced readers to early sleuths long before the genre fully took off.
41 Audiobooks
The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance
by Anna Katharine Green
Dark Hollow
by Anna Katharine Green
The step on the stair
by Anna Katharine Green
The Old Stone House and Other Stories
by Anna Katharine Green
The Amethyst Box
by Anna Katharine Green
The Bronze Hand 1897
by Anna Katharine Green
Eleven Possible Cases
by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler
The Gray Madam 1899
by Anna Katharine Green
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
by Anna Katharine Green
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
by Anna Katharine Green
The Chief Legatee
by Anna Katharine Green
The Mill Mystery
by Anna Katharine Green
The Mayor's Wife
by Anna Katharine Green
The Staircase At The Heart's Delight 1894
by Anna Katharine Green
Agatha Webb
by Anna Katharine Green
The Forsaken Inn: A Novel
by Anna Katharine Green
Midnight In Beauchamp Row 1895
by Anna Katharine Green
Doctor Izard
by Anna Katharine Green
The Circular Study
by Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove
by Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby
by Anna Katharine Green
Initials Only
by Anna Katharine Green
Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth
by Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby
by Anna Katharine Green
The Hermit Of ——— Street 1898
by Anna Katharine Green
The House of the Whispering Pines
by Anna Katharine Green
X Y Z: A Detective Story
by Anna Katharine Green
One of My Sons
by Anna Katharine Green
That Affair Next Door
by Anna Katharine Green
The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair
by Anna Katharine Green
A Difficult Problem 1900
by Anna Katharine Green
Hand and Ring
by Anna Katharine Green
7 to 12: A Detective Story
by Anna Katharine Green
Three Thousand Dollars
by Anna Katharine Green
Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories
by Anna Katharine Green
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
by Anna Katharine Green
The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life
by Anna Katharine Green
The House in the Mist
by Anna Katharine Green
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
by Anna Katharine Green
The House in the Mist
by Anna Katharine Green
About the author
Born in Brooklyn in 1846, Anna Katharine Green became one of the earliest and most influential American crime writers. She is best known for The Leavenworth Case (1878), a breakthrough novel that won a wide readership and helped prove that detective fiction could be both popular and carefully constructed.
Green built her reputation on tightly plotted mysteries and a strong sense of legal detail, a quality often linked to her father, who was a lawyer. Over a long career she wrote novels, short fiction, and poetry, and created memorable recurring characters including detective Ebenezer Gryce and the observant spinster Amelia Butterworth.
She later married designer Charles Rohlfs and lived in Buffalo, New York, where she died in 1935. Often called a forerunner of the modern mystery writer, Green remains an important figure for readers interested in the roots of detective fiction.