Anna Katharine Green

This classic crime novel features the detective Ebenezer Grice, one of Anna Katherine Green's recurring characters.

An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels compelled to pursue her.

On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit New York to attend to some unknown business.

The two major characters in this crime novel are Doctor Izard, a reclusive and unconventional physician, and Polly Earle, a beautiful young woman who has been raised by her adoptive parents. Polly is engaged to be married and appears to be set for a happy and secure future.

In a quiet seaside town in New England, the reclusive Agatha Webb and her servant are found dead. Agatha has had a number of children who died in infancy.

In the house at Whispering Pines, which is supposed to be closed, the narrator discovers a dead body. On closer inspection, and much to his horror, he discovers that the corpse is that of his fiance.

These two novellas by seminal crime novelist Anna Katharine Green were first published in 1887....

Newly married Mrs. Jeffrey is found in the library of the old family mansion dead with a pistol tied to her wrist, and everyone is suspect. The library in the family mansion has a reputation for harboring dead men, and no one knows how or why this is so....

An abandoned inn, a crime that took 16 years to be discovered, a generational story of love and betrayal all await the listener in this rendition of Anna Katharine Green’s The Forsaken Inn....

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it....

This novella comes from A Difficult Problem, a collection of six mystery stories by pioneer crime novelist, Anna Katharine Green. The plot is a curious reworking of the Bluebeard legend - a naive young woman becomes fascinted with a reclusive neighbour....

A young man, Bertram Mandeville, confesses to his wealthy uncle Edward Sylvester his desire to abandon a career as a pianist in order to win the heart of a young woman whose father dislikes musicians. This leads Sylvester to review his own life during which he married for money....

Hours after his lavish wedding in early 20th-century New York, millionaire Roger Ransom discovers his bride, Georgian, missing. The sinister man who crashed their reception seems to be the culprit, but evidence turns up that she left of her own free will....

Love at first sight can be wonderful…unless you fall in love with a murderer. The local minister dies under mysterious circumstances and Dwight Pollard, indeed the whole Pollard family, are hiding something....

In The Amethyst Box, a vial of incredibly potent poison goes missing on the eve of a wedding. The groom and the best man set out to find it and prevent its misuse....

The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries is a series of three novels featuring Amelia Butterworth teaming up with Ebenezer Gryce. Miss Butterworth is a nosy high-society lady whose wealth and lack of family give her plenty of free time in which to solve several Victorian-era crimes....

Although Anna Katharine Green was best known as a crime novelist, this anthology is essentially a collection of horror stories....

During the wealth and glitter of the Gilded Age, a six-year-old heiress goes missing from her opulent hilltop estate. Detective Robert Trevitt sets out to find her. Using inside knowledge of her family's secrets, he searches for little Gwendolen where no one else can....

A plan for a daring robbery is hatched between a professional criminal and an unscrupulous office manager. One person in particular has to be drawn into this nefarious scheme - the business owner's personal assistant, the young and attractive Grace Lee....

Five stories to thrill and mystify you. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), a prolific author and "the mother of the detective novel", wrote these stories between 1909 and 1913. This audiobook is an original production by Voices of Today....