Think of classic detectives and you immediately think of Sherlock Holmes but this story, written in 1878, predated him by a good ten years and was even a best-seller back then, not an unknown work. Ms Green is considered the mother of the detective novel and is renowned for being legally accurate...
Not Ms. Green's best work, sadly. The pace is erratic and the tale often slows to a point where it struggles to hold interest in the reader. That doesn't hold true for much of her writing, so why it should do so here, I confess I don't understand; she can write far better than this when she tries...
Les aventures d'un policier new-yorkais, Ebenezer Cryce, quiquagénaire corpulent et sympathique. Dans cette enquête, il est secondé par Amélia Butterworthe, une vieille fille extrêmement fureteuse.
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. 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). Born in Brooklyn, New York, her early ambition...
Gryce, it was to find him looking somewhat sober. "Those Schoenmakers," said he, "are making a deal of trouble. It seems they escaped the fellows up north and are now somewhere in this city, but where--" An expressive gesture finished the sentence. "Is that so?" exclaimed I. "Then we are sure to ...
MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN “One more! just one more well paying affair, and I promise to stop; really and truly to stop.” “But, Puss, why one more? You have earned the amount you set for yourself,—or very nearly,—and though my help is not great, in three months I can add enoug...