She published her first - and most famous work in 1878 - 'The Leavenworth Case'. Wilkie Collins praised it and it sold extremely well. It led to Anna writing 40 novels and to becoming known as 'the mother of the detective novel.
This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Millionaire Baby' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery.
""Guilty!"" Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), novelist and poet, was author of such novels of mystery and detection as "The Leavenworth Case" and "The Forsaken Inn."
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She is best known for her novel ‘The Leavenworth Case’ (1878) with which she became one of the first American writers of detective fiction.
The Millionaire Baby
The Millionaire Baby
The Millionaire Baby
... wish I shall do my best to gratify. It is true that I am not a police detective, but I have an agency of my own ... something odd about this shoe, and that Mrs. Ocumpaugh had gone into hysterics. Do you know what they meant by that? I ...
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