It's a long-term goal of mine to read all of Anna Katherine Green's mysteries and this one has been sitting on my shelves for awhile now. AKG was, and is, considered a strong mystery writer, but as is true of most every writer, her work is sometimes better than others. This was one of the ones ...
Well, the third week really hit my bingo experience out of the ballpark this year -- and not only because it finished with my first completed bingo; that was actually just the icing on the cake. But it included no less than three absolutely knock-out fabulous books, plus a fourth that was almost as...
The Lady Detectives is a compilation of four full cast radio dramatizations of early Golden Age mysteries focusing on women detectives; not only pioneering works of detective fiction as such but works that give their women protagonists much greater agency than the majority of their female contempora...
I read one of the Violet Strange short stories last year as part of an anthology (I can't remember which one); it was my first introduction to Anna Katherine Green's work and I liked it enough that I wanted to read more. In that story, (The Intangible Clew), Strange showed a distinctive Sherlock Ho...
In my unofficial quest to read all of Anna Katherine Green's work, The Circular Study is my first Amelia Butterworth mystery. Amelia Butterworth is credited as the prototype of the spinster amateur detective, a category that includes Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver, and Christie's infamous Miss Ma...
Anna Katherine Green was an American novelist at the turn of the 20th century and is considered by many to be the mother of the detective novel. I first read a short story of hers last year, featuring Violet Strange, and immediately wanted to read more. I couldn't find a collection of her Strange ...
*I received an ecopy from the author for review. This does not affect my review.*I...what was the point? I'm really not sure. While I enjoyed parts of this, more often I found myself asking 'Why?' I really don't know what the author was trying to get across this book, unless maybe confusion? Not sur...
“Sansho the Steward” by Mori Ogai This is a poignant short story about a brother and sister who are kidnapped and sold into slavery. There’s no way there could be a happy end for both of them. The Golden Slipper, and other problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katherine Green A fun detective nov...
I was browsing the free Amazon books looking for a book that would fit in the 'mist November' challenge over on the ff-leesclub and so I came to this collection of three short stories of which The House in the Mist is the longest. Over a hundred years old the stories are indeed a little bit outdat...
“Oak walls. Ah, my soul! It has come soon!” A traveler is caught out during a storm and is warned, by a fellow traveler, against seeking shelter from the old, dilapidated inn. They move on to a more welcoming refuge, where the helpful traveler gives the other a manuscript that will explain his warn...
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