Anna Katharine Green
American novelist
- Lived
- 1846–1935
- Country
- United States
Updated September 2026
Free to read
All free classicsThat Affair Next Door
The Leavenworth Case
The Forsaken Inn
A Strange Disappearance
The Sword of Damocles
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
Hand and Ring
Initials Only
The Old Stone House and Other Stories
The Filigree Ball
One of My Sons
The House of the Whispering Pines
The Woman in the Alcove
The Mayor's Wife
About Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".
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