That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane

Two 19th century mysteries by one of the founding mothers of the genre.

List of contents

Introduction by Catherine Ross Nickerson 1

That Affair Next Door 11

Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth 245

About the author

Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was a well-reviewed and commercially successful author of detective novels. She wrote thirty-four novels and four collections of stories. Catherine Ross Nickerson is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women, also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

A woman is found with her face crushed beyond recognition in the Gramercy Park townhouse of the Van Burnams, a prominent New York merchant family. Amelia Butterworth unravels the social climbing and instances of mistaken identity at the heart of the case.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Katharinegreen, Green, Anna Katharine Green, Anna Katherine Green, Catherine Ross Nickerson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2003
• EAN: 9780822331537
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3153-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Weight: 726 g
• Illustrations: 2 line drawings
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense