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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
he boards. She gave one look and then stepped gingerly in.

"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 sure that she noted the fact. "And where, just where did the old wallet fall? Here? or here?"

She had moved as she spoke, so that in uttering the last "here," she stood directly before the window. The surprise she received there nearly made her forget the part she was playing. From the character of the light in the room, she had expected, on looking out, to confront a near-by wall, but not a window in that wall. Yet that was what she saw directly facing her from across the old-fashioned alley separating this house from its neighbour; twelve unshuttered and uncurtained panes through which she caught a darkened view of a room almost as forlorn and devoid of furniture as the one in which she then stood.

When quite sure of herself, she let a certain portion of her surprise appear.

"Why, look!" she cried, "if you can't see right in next door! What a lonesome-looking place! From its desolate appearance I should think the house quite e

Julie 08/22/2021
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
Diana 03/09/2020
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
Lorena 11/24/2018
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
Tweety 07/14/2015
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
Bev 01/26/2015
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
Ren 11/30/2010
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