| The Chief Legatee Contributor(s): Green, Anna Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 144747886X ISBN-13: 9781447478867 Publisher: Ramsay Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal - Fiction | Thrillers - Supernatural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1906 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Chief Legatee' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was year's bestseller, establishing Green's reputation. Green wrote at a time when fiction, and especially crime fiction, was dominated by men. However, she is now credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the trope of the recurring detective. |
