| That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane Contributor(s): Green, Anna Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 082233190X ISBN-13: 9780822331902 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: "Move over, Miss Marple! The original spinster sleuth is back, confronting ghostly coaches, nosing into family skullduggery, and tripping over occasional corpses. Three cheers for Amelia Butterworth and her creator Anna Katharine Green."--Elizabeth Foxwell, mystery writer and contributing editor, "Mystery Scene" magazine "From the very beginning women writers have been of fundamental importance to the mystery genre, and these highly entertaining works by one of the founding 'mothers' of the American mystery novel demonstrate why. Times may have changed since these books were first published, but good reading never goes out of fashion."--Dean James, coauthor of "By a Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women "and manager of Murder by the Book (Houston, Texas) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003004910 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.14" W x 8.66" (1.34 lbs) 456 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, was the bestseller of 1878. Green is credited with a number of "firsts" within the mystery genre, including the gentleman murdered as he makes out his will and the icicle as murder weapon. She created the first female detectives in American fiction. Her amateur spinster sleuth, Amelia Butterworth, became the prototype for numerous women detectives to follow, including Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Nosy, opinionated, and tenacious, Amelia Butterworth engages in a sustained rivalry with Ebenezer Gryce, a police detective. In the interaction between these characters, Green developed two more conventions adopted by future generations of mystery writers: the investigation as battle between the sexes and between the professional and the unexpectedly sharp, observant amateur. This volume presents two of Green's Amelia Butterworth tales: That Affair Next Door (1897) and Lost Man's Lane (1898). |
