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Anna Katharine Green

1846–1935

Often called one of the pioneers of detective fiction, she helped shape the mystery novel long before the genre was fully established. Her stories introduced careful plotting, memorable investigators, and the kind of clue-based suspense that later became a hallmark of crime writing.

41 Audiobooks

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katharine Green

A Strange Disappearance

by Anna Katharine Green

The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

by Anna Katharine Green

The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life

by Anna Katharine Green

The Circular Study

by Anna Katharine Green

That Affair Next Door

by Anna Katharine Green

Eleven Possible Cases

by Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Frank R. Stockton, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

by Anna Katharine Green

Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth

by Anna Katharine Green

The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

by Anna Katharine Green

Hand and Ring

by Anna Katharine Green

The Forsaken Inn: A Novel

by Anna Katharine Green

7 to 12: A Detective Story

by Anna Katharine Green

The House in the Mist

by Anna Katharine Green

The Woman in the Alcove

by Anna Katharine Green

Dark Hollow

by Anna Katharine Green

Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories

by Anna Katharine Green

Three Thousand Dollars

by Anna Katharine Green

Initials Only

by Anna Katharine Green

The Amethyst Box

by Anna Katharine Green

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green

One of My Sons

by Anna Katharine Green

The Millionaire Baby

by Anna Katharine Green

Cynthia Wakeham's Money

by Anna Katharine Green

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

by Anna Katharine Green

The House of the Whispering Pines

by Anna Katharine Green

The Staircase At The Heart's Delight

by Anna Katharine Green

The Bronze Hand

by Anna Katharine Green

A Difficult Problem

by Anna Katharine Green

X Y Z: A Detective Story

by Anna Katharine Green

Midnight In Beauchamp Row

by Anna Katharine Green

The Hermit Of ——— Street

by Anna Katharine Green

The Chief Legatee

by Anna Katharine Green

Agatha Webb

by Anna Katharine Green

The Gray Madam

by Anna Katharine Green

The Filigree Ball

by Anna Katharine Green

The House in the Mist

by Anna Katharine Green

The Millionaire Baby

by Anna Katharine Green

The step on the stair

by Anna Katharine Green

The Mill Mystery

by Anna Katharine Green

Doctor Izard

by Anna Katharine Green

About the author

Born in Brooklyn in 1846, Anna Katharine Green became one of the first American writers to build a career around detective fiction. Her breakthrough novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878), was a major success and helped prove that crime stories could be both popular and carefully constructed.

She went on to write dozens of novels and short stories, creating detectives such as Ebenezer Gryce and the young sleuth Amelia Butterworth. Her work is often noted for intricate puzzles, courtroom drama, and close attention to motive and evidence, qualities that made her an important early influence on later mystery writers.

Green lived until 1935, publishing across the late Victorian and early modern eras. Today she is remembered as a foundational figure in the development of the detective novel in the United States.