Essential Novelists - Anna Katharine Green

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Anna Katharine Green wich are The Leavenworth Case and A Strange Disappearance. Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called 'the mother of the detective novel'. Novels selected for this book: - The Leavenworth Case. - A Strange Disappearance.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Anna Katharine Green, married name Anna Green Rohlfs, (born Nov. 11, 1846, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.died April 11, 1935, Buffalo, N.Y.), American writer of detective fiction who helped to make the genre popular in America by creating well-constructed plots based on a good knowledge of criminal law.