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Lost Man’s Lane

First published: 1898
Pages: 243

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A visit from Mr. Gryce
7:01
I am tempted
24:15
I succumb
24:27
A ghostly interior
11:44
A strange household
13:20
A sombre evening
8:18
The first night
13:33
On the stairs
7:31
A new acquaintance
16:35
Secret instructions
11:49
Men, women, and ghosts
21:59
The phantom coach
18:20
Gossip
10:07
I forget my age, or, rather, remember it
21:56
Lucetta fulfils my expectation of her
10:38
Loreen
16:54
The flower parlor
20:57
The second night
23:12
A knot of crape
12:11
Questions
8:55
Mother Jane
12:02
The third night
20:41
Room 3, Hotel Carter
19:52
The enigma of numbers
20:16
Trifles, but not trifling
8:34
A point gained
12:52
The text witnesseth
6:17
An intrusion
8:11
In the cellar
9:48
Investigation
7:08
Strategy
19:58
Relief
7:47
Lucetta
35:07
Conditions
4:25
The dove
12:39
An hour of startling experiences
39:52
I astonish Mr. Gryce and he astonishes me
8:55
A few words
5:46
Under a crimson sky
25:53
Explanations
16:06
Epilogue
42:43

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About this book

The spinster sleuth Amelia Butterworth returns for a second case, and this time Anna Katharine Green sends her out of the city onto a shadowed country road where travelers keep vanishing. At the urging of the veteran detective Gryce, Amelia takes lodging with an eccentric family whose gloomy house sits at the heart of the trouble, and she uses her sharp eye and unimpeachable social standing to gather what a professional man never could. Green paired her amateur and her professional detectives to fine effect, letting Butterworth's nerve and wit carry a genuinely eerie plot. The result is an early portrait of the woman investigator who would later fill so much of mystery fiction. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

About the author

Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American novelist often called the mother of detective fiction. Her bestselling debut, The Leavenworth Case, brought realism and legal detail to the genre, and over a long career she created recurring sleuths who influenced writers from Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie.