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Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York – April 11, 1935 in Buffalo) was an American author. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father). Her most famous book, The Leavenworth Case (1878) was actually written only after her poetry failed to gain recognition. Green's first passion was to write romantic verse. She even corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry was ignored, she wrote a novel. This made her famous overnight. Anna Katharine Green was a very progressive woman for her time. In a world of man's literature, she managed to not only get published, but also to become a bestselling authoress. Yet, she did not approve of many of her contemporary feminists. She did not even believe women should get the vote. She gained fame for her well thought out plots, but was not always appreciated for her Victorian era characters and dialogue.

Her first and most successful detective was Ebenezer Gryce. Others include Violet Strange and Amelia Butterworth, Gryce's assistant.

She published about 40 books. November 25, 1884 she married the actor and later designer and artist Charles Rohlfs. They had one daughter and two sons, Roland Rohlfs and Sterling Rohlfs who were test pilots.

Many of Anna Katharine Green's books are available electronically from Project Gutenberg

Bibliography

Initials Only

Room No 3

The Leavenworth Case (1878)

A Strange Disappearance (1880)

The Sword of Damocles (1881)

XYZ: a Detective Story (1883)

Hand and Ring (1883)

The Mill Mystery (1886)

7 to 12: A Detective Story (1887)

Behind Closed Doors (1888)

Forsaken Inn (1890)

The Forsaken Inn (1890)

The Old House and Other Stories (1891)

Cynthia Wakeham's Money (1892)

Marked Personal (1893)

Miss Hurd: An Enigma (1894)

Doctor Izard (1895)

The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895)

Lost Man's Lane (1898)

Agatha Webb (1899)

That Affair Next Door (1897)

A Difficult Problem (collected 1900)

The Circular Study (1900)

A Difficult Problem (1900)

Three Women and a Mystery (1902)

The Filigree Ball (1903)

The House in the Mist (1905)

The Millionaire Baby (1905)

The Amethyst Box (1905)

The Chief Legatee (1906) {aka The Woman of Mystery}

The Woman in the Alcove (1906)

The Mayor's Wife (1907)

The House of the Whispering Pines (1910)

Three Thousand Dollars (1910)

Masterpieces of Mystery (collected 1913)

Dark Hollow (1914)

The Golden Slipper: and other problems for Violet Strange (1915)

To the Minute and Scarlet and Black (1916)

The Step on the Stair (1923)

Short Stories

The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange (collected 1915)

• An Intangible Clue
• The Grotto Spectre
• Missing: Page Thirteen
• Violet's Own
• The Mystery of the Blue Wash
• The Doctor, His Wife, And the Clock