Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935)
Author of The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story
About the Author
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Works by Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katherine Green - Mysteries Vol II - House of the Whispering Pines, Initials Only, & Dark Hollow (2009) 2 copies
Anna Katherine Green - Mysteries Vol III - Millionaire Baby, Chief Legatee, & Woman in the Alcove (2009) 2 copies
Purpurorkidéen : Detektivroman 2 copies
Den försvunna bruden 1 copy
The Golden Slipper by Anna Katharine Green: Super Large Print Edition of the Classic Violet Strange Mystery Specially… (2019) 1 copy
The Little Steel Coils 1 copy
Risifi's Daughter: A Drama 1 copy
Vem var det 1 copy
Ett hemlighetsfullt uppdrag 1 copy
Der Tag der Vergeltung 1 copy
Detective Gryce, N. Y. P. D.: Volume: 1-The Leavenworth Case and That Affair Next Door (2011) 1 copy
7 to 12 1 copy
The Mysteries Of Amelia Butterworth: That Affair Next Door, Lost Man's Lane and The Circular Study (2013) 1 copy
9 Mystery Novels: Boxed Set 1 copy
THE CASES OF VIOLET STRANGE - Complete Mystery Collection: Whodunit Classics: The Golden Slipper, The Second Bullet, An… (2016) 1 copy
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green [Literary Touchstone Edition](annotated) (2020) 1 copy
Anna Katherine Green - Mysteries Vol I - The Circular Study, The Golden Slipper, & The Hasty Arrow 1 copy
Anna Katharine Green Detective Mystery Collection: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, Mystery of the Hasty… (2013) 1 copy
Detective Gryce Mysteries 1 copy
Associated Works
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes (2011) — Contributor — 196 copies
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (2011) — Contributor — 142 copies
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contributor — 109 copies
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contributor — 104 copies
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Contributor — 94 copies
The Lady Sleuths MEGAPACK ®: 20 Modern and Classic Tales of Female Detectives (2014) — Contributor — 16 copies
Female Sleuths Megapack: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke, and Amelia Butterworth (2014) — Contributor — 12 copies
4 Detectives: Miss Madelyn Mack, Violet Strange, Miss Van Snoop, Florence Cusack (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Lady Detectives: Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations — Contributor — 2 copies
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Rohlfs, Anna Katharine Green
- Birthdate
- 1846-11-11
- Date of death
- 1935-04-11
- Burial location
- Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Occupations
- novelist
poet
detective novelist
mystery writer
crime novelist
short story writer - Relationships
- Rohlfs, Charles (husband)
- Short biography
- Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York to James Wilson Green, a lawyer, and his wife Catharine Ann Whitney. In 1866, she graduated from Ripley Female College (now Green Mountain College) in Poultney, Vermont. Her first published book was The Leavenworth Case (1878), a major success, now considered the first American detective novel. In 1884, she married Charles Rohlfs, an actor who later became an acclaimed furniture designer, with whom she collaborated on some of his designs. The couple had three children. She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books during her career.
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