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Anna Katharine Green
1846–1935
A pioneer of American detective fiction, she helped shape the mystery novel with intricate plots and a sharp sense of legal detail. Her stories arrived decades before the golden age of crime fiction and still feel like the groundwork for it.
41 Audiobooks
The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance
by Anna Katharine Green
Dark Hollow
by Anna Katharine Green
The Bronze Hand 1897
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
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 Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
by Anna Katharine Green
The Gray Madam 1899
by Anna Katharine Green
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
by Anna Katharine Green
The Mill Mystery
by Anna Katharine Green
The Staircase At The Heart's Delight 1894
by Anna Katharine Green
Midnight In Beauchamp Row 1895
by Anna Katharine Green
The Chief Legatee
by Anna Katharine Green
Agatha Webb
by Anna Katharine Green
The Forsaken Inn: A Novel
by Anna Katharine Green
The Mayor's Wife
by Anna Katharine Green
Doctor Izard
by Anna Katharine Green
Initials Only
by Anna Katharine Green
One of My Sons
by Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby
by Anna Katharine Green
That Affair Next Door
by Anna Katharine Green
Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth
by Anna Katharine Green
The Circular Study
by Anna Katharine Green
The Hermit Of ——— Street 1898
by Anna Katharine Green
The House of the Whispering Pines
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
X Y Z: A Detective Story
by Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove
by Anna Katharine Green
Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories
by Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby
by Anna Katharine Green
A Difficult Problem 1900
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
Hand and Ring
by Anna Katharine Green
Three Thousand Dollars
by Anna Katharine Green
7 to 12: A Detective Story
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, New York, in 1846, Anna Katharine Green became one of the earliest and most influential American writers of detective fiction. She studied at Ripley Female College in Vermont and first hoped to write poetry, but her career took off when she turned to mystery and suspense.
Her breakthrough came with The Leavenworth Case in 1878, a hugely popular novel that helped establish the detective story in the United States. Readers and later writers admired her tightly built plots, courtroom and legal realism, and memorable recurring characters, including detective Ebenezer Gryce and the young sleuth Amelia Butterworth.
Green published many novels and story collections across a long career, and her work helped set patterns that later became standard in crime fiction. She died in 1935, but she is still remembered as an early master of the genre and is often described as one of the writers who paved the way for modern mystery novels.