Anna Katharine Green

Titles in Fiction category:

• Agatha Webb

  The dance was over. From the great house on the hill the guests had all departed and only the musicians remained. As they filed out through the ample doorway, on their way home, the first faint streak of early dawn became visible in the east. One of them, a lank, plain-featured young man ...

• Dark Hollow

  A high and narrow gate of carefully joined boards, standing ajar in a fence of the same construction! What is there in this to rouse a whole neighbourhood and collect before it a group of eager, anxious, hesitating people?

• Filigree Ball, The

  For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been expressed in words. Though I had small reason for expecting great things of myself, I had always cheris ...

• Golden Slipper, The

  "She's here! I thought she would be. She's one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium."

• House of the Whispering Pines, The    

  To have reared a towering scheme
  Of happiness, and to behold it razed,
  Were nothing: all men hope, and see their hopes
  Frustrate, and grieve awhile, and hope anew;
  But--
  
  A Blot in the 'Scutcheon.

• Initials Only

  "A remarkable man!"

• Leavenworth Case, The

      "A deed of dreadful note."
         --Macbeth.

• Mayor's Wife, The

  I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety.

• Mill Mystery, The

    Life, struck sharp on death,
    Makes awful lightning.
                --MRS. BROWNING.

• Strange Disappearance, A

  "Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one which has come under my direct notice. Indeed, I know of another that in some respects, at least, surpasses that in points of interest, and if you will promise not to ...

• Woman in the Alcove, The

  I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest--up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.