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The Golden Slipper
Anna Katharine Green
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Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection contains nine mysteries or problems for her to solve in an early example of the 'girl detective' by mistress of crime, Anna Katharine Green
Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection contains nine mysteries or problems for her to solve in an early example of the 'girl detective' by mistress of crime, Anna Katharine Green
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"Just look!" she cried; "a whole string of marks going straight from door to window. They have no shape, have they,—just blotches? I wonder why one of them is so much larger than the rest?"
This was no new question. It was one which everybody who went into the room was sure to ask, there was such a difference in the size and appearance of the mark nearest the window. The reason—well, minds were divided about that, and no one had a satisfactory theory. The detective therefore kept discreetly silent.
This did not seem to offend Miss Strange. On the contrary it gave her an opportunity to babble away to her heart's content.
"One, two, three, four, five, six," she counted, with a shudder at every count. "And one of them bigger than the others." She might have added, "It is the trail of one foot, and strangely, intermingled at that," but she did not, though we may be quite s. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I always enjoy these older mysteries when they feature female detectives. This is a series of short stories where a well placed debutante, Violet Strange, is commissioned to investigate different crimes. What is making these especially interesting is that she never wants to detect anything and must
I really enjoyed this book, more a series of classic short mysteries. Violet Strange is a turn-of-the-century New York socialite. As she solves increasingly high-stakes mysteries among her set, the reader also gradually picks up clues as to why she would risk her own reputation to act as a detective
What I took for a short story collection is actually one story and the slipper and problems are cases, investigated by socialite Violet Strange. I was pleasantly surprised by this author, I had no idea that she inspired authors like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The protagonist of the sto
I’ve become a big fan of Green but this wasn’t one of my favorite books. Maybe because it was short stories but the mysteries seemed too simplistic to me. Also, I wasn’t a big fan of the main character. I felt she was shallow and a little arrogant. An interesting view of mystery in short story form,
Nancy Who?
It's only after reading all these short mystery stories that the full force of the titles hit you. I don't know which was the worst, but I think perhaps The Doctor, His Wife, and The Clock was the most awful of them. Or was it Missing Page 13? No, it was The Second Bullet.
Anyway, here's a brief rev
The Golden Slipper & Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915) is a collection of stories by Anna Katharine Green featuring an early edition of that familiar figure, the "girl detective." Violet Strange is a pretty young debutante with a wealthy father and the spare time to secretly investigate vario