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The Forsaken Inn

by Anna Katharine Green

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205
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Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) · 6 h 31 min · 28 parts

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  1. The Oak Parlor

    22:28

  2. Burritt

    13:57

  3. A Fearful Discovery

    24:14

  4. Questions and Answers

    13:28

  5. Am Interim of Suspense

    8:42

  6. The Recluse

    14:25

  7. Two Women

    23:43

  8. A Sudden Betrothal

    7:16

  9. Marah

    15:17

  10. At the Foot of the Stairs

    7:15

  11. Honora

    6:45

  12. Edwin Urquhart

    5:59

  13. Before the Wedding

    14:15

  14. A Cassandra At The Gate

    11:23

  15. The Catastrophe

    13:19

  16. A Dream Ended

    11:29

  17. Strange Guests

    11:06

  18. Mrs. Truax Talks

    22:22

  19. In the Halls at Midnight

    11:29

  20. The Stone in the Garden

    16:16

  21. In the Oak Parlor - Part 1

    21:44

  22. In the Oak Parlor - Part 2

    25:28

  23. A Surprise for Honora

    13:44

  24. In the Secret Chamber

    14:17

  25. The Marquis

    7:19

  26. Mark Felt

    14:31

  27. For the Last Time

    4:24

  28. A Last Word

    14:54

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Anna Katharine Green set this 1890 novel in a lonely old inn in Revolutionary-era America, telling the story through a manuscript left behind by its former landlady, Mrs. Truax. Her journal reopens a crime buried sixteen years earlier: Edwin Urquhart, loved by two sisters, marries the elder and brings her to the inn on their wedding night, where the young bride is killed and hidden inside a secret chamber. Unusually for Green, the murderer is known almost from the start. What she holds back is the complicated love story and jealousy that led to the act, uncovered slowly as the diary moves between past and present. The result leans toward gothic suspense rather than straight detection, showing a wider range than the label 'mother of the detective novel' suggests.

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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.

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Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
205
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)