This volume collects all three Amelia Butterworth novels by Anna Katharine Green: "That Affair Next Door," "Lost Man's Lane" and "The Circular Study." If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan -- she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.)

Anna Katharine Green was an American author known as "the mother of the detective novel." Green's best known novels are the Amelia Butterworth Mysteries which consist of That Affair Next Door, Lost Man's Lane, and The Circular Study.

This carefully crafted ebook: "AMELIA BUTTERWORTH MYSTERIES: That Affair Next Door + Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth + The Circular Study" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Amelia Butterworth Series is a collection of three mystery novels featuring the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. Anna Katharine Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". She stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". Table of Contents: That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth The Circular Study

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "AMELIA BUTTERWORTH - Complete Mystery Series". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. Anna Katharine Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". She stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". Table of Contents: That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth The Circular Study

This carefully crafted ebook: "AMELIA BUTTERWORTH MYSTERIES: That Affair Next Door + Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth + The Circular Study" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Amelia Butterworth Series is a collection of three mystery novels featuring the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. Anna Katharine Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". She stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". Table of Contents: That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth The Circular Study

“The Circular Study” is a 1900 detective novel by Anne Katherine Green. The story revolves around a cryptic message received by Detective Gryce that takes him to a quiet house in up-market New York City where he discovers a dead body laid out delicately in the study. With an apparently insane, deaf, and dumb butler and a bird in a cage as the only witnesses, Gryce must employ the aid of Miss Amelia Butterworth to uncover the mystery of this heinous crime. The third instalment of Green's female detective series “The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries” and also number ten in the "Mr Gryce Series", “The Circular Study” is a riveting murder mystery not to be missed by fans and collectors of classic detective fiction. Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American novelist and poet. Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the “mother” of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots. Other notable works by this author include: “The Leavenworth Case” (1878), “A Strange Disappearance” (1880), and “The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life” (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this vintage detective novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Lost Man's Lane by Anna Katharine Green is the story of a New York female detective who must solve who snatched Mr. Gryce's acquaintance. Excerpt: "Ever since my fortunate—or shall I say unfortunate?—connection with that famous case of murder in Gramercy Park, I have had it intimated to me by many of my friends—and by some who were not my friends—that no woman who had met with such success as myself in detective work would ever be satisfied with a single display of her powers, and that sooner or later I would find myself again at work upon some other case of striking peculiarities."