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by Anna Katharine Green

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ISBN: 1438574215
Author: Anna Katharine Green
Publisher: Book Jungle (March 9, 2010)
Language: English
Pages: 206
ePub: 1821 kb
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Rating: 4.4
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Category: Literature
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Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist.

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) 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". She was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11, 1846. Green had an early ambition to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anna Katharine Green. Anna Katharine Green was one of the earliest detective fiction writers, and some of her mysteries remain the most popular to be written by an American.

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The Mill Mystery book. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. by. Anna Katharine Green. A mystery written by acclaimed mystery author Anna Katharine Green.

Anna Katherine Green (1846-1935) was known for her complex plots, and the plot is the best thing about this book

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By Anna Katharine Green. By Anna Katharine Green. The Forsaken Inn: A Novel. The Hermit Of --- Street 1898. Three Thousand Dollars. The House of the Whispering Pines. Excerpt I overtook her at last; but where? Far out of town on that dark and dismal road, where the gaunt chimneys of the deserted mill rise from a growth of pine-trees.

Anna Green wrote at the beginning of the 20th century. She was an American poet and novelist. Green was one of the first to write detective fiction in America, Her work is known for its legal accuracy and well plotted story lines. Her novels include, The Leavenworth Case (1878), A Strange Disappearance (1880), Hand and Ring (1883), Behind Closed Doors (1888), Forsaken Inn (1890), Marked "Personal" (1893), and The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895). The Mill Mystery is a book that can be classified as a sensational mystery. Green does an excellent job of giving the readers clues, but not enough clues to make the mystery easily solvable.

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Hucama

Anna Katherine Green (1846-1935) was known for her complex plots, and the plot is the best thing about this book. There's no real development of several of the main characters. They just plunge into their adventures with glittering eyes and pounding hearts.

Initially the mystery revolves around the death of a beloved young minister, Mr. Barrows, who's found drowned in the vat of an old abandoned mill. In a modern thriller, forensics would quickly determined if it was suicide or murder. But no such luck in 1886, when this book was published. A beautiful young woman called Constance has to figure it out.

Constance is constant to a promise she made to her roommate Ada Reynolds, the fiancée of Mr. Barrows. Ada does not accept the idea of suicide and wants Constance to clear her lover's name of this awful suspicion. Ada drops dead of heart failure just after Mr. Barrows' death. Sudden deaths are rife in this novel.

Constance finds a sinister connection between the clergyman and the rich and locally prominent Pollard family. In the earliest stages of her contact with them, she's drawn to the oldest son of the family - a somewhat unconvincing case of love at first sight. This naturally complicates her investigation, which will be full of shocking discoveries.

Green at her best is a melodramatic but ingenious weaver of mysteries. She helped shape the genre of detective fiction, and her influence lives on in Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes. This is not her best effort, however. I'd recommend instead The Leavenworth Case, her greatest mystery. Another good one is The House of the Whispering Pines. But if you're reading all her works, as I am, The Mill Mystery will be of interest.

Original

This is the darkest AK Green novel I've read, and I've read at least 20. The villains torture and manipulate the innocent--who suffer and die in direct proportion to their innocence. In the end, the villains get to keep what they plotted for--wealth and "nobility"--and having gotten away with moral, if not legal, culpability for murder, it can be assumed they will find murder all the easier if they find someone thwarting them in future. I am left queasy.

Wafi

This copy contains a lot of spelling errors. It is also not well formatted and is missing some illustrations. They story is also just not very good. The characters are lacking in depth and the mystery is just ridiculous. I read a lot of mysteries from this era and this is one of the Morley written ones.

luisRED

Very interesting and very different. I did enjoy it though and would recommend it to anyone who likes a mystery.

Vijora

This is an old fashioned mystery by an old time writer. Most of the action takes place within the mind or experience of Constance as she discovers the details of the story. It pulled me into her experience and kept my interested to the end. I will read more by this author.

Centrizius

the book was a little dated.

Kupidon

I really couldn't get into this book at all.
The characters were clear but the scenes and
environment of each situation didn't come through.
Pamela

Cool.

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