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    Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook
    Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook
    Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook
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    Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook

    Written by Anna Katharine Green

    Narrated by Shelly Frasier

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    About this audiobook

    Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to her family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks, and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery, and intrigue.



    The quirky tales of detection included in this collection are "The Golden Slipper," "The Second Bullet," "The Intangible Clue," "The Grotto Spectre," "The Dreaming Lady," "The House of Clocks," "The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock," "Missing: Page Thirteen," and "Violet's Own."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 27, 2009
    ISBN9781400181056
    Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook
    Author

    Anna Katharine Green

    Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American writer and one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States. Her book The Leavenworth Case, published in 1878, became a wildly successful bestseller. Green went on to write dozens of mysteries and detective novels. She died in Buffalo, New York. 

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    • 3/5
      Really interesting early female detective novel (perhaps the earliest). Violet Strange is a young, wealthy New York socialite, wh seemingly has no reason to be a detective...and yet, she's apparently won't he respect of her unnamed employer, who sends her out to solve all his most difficult cases. She continues to take them, even though they disturb her, because she claims she needs the money--something her lifestyle and wardrobe would seem to counter. The final mystery to be solved, then, is why Voiolet needs the money so desperately, and how she became a detective.The writing here is kind of vague and stilted, and the book reads like a short story collection until about halfway through, when it becomes clearer that the episodes are connected in significant ways. The solutions, too, are often drawn out and overly dramatic. But as a historical work, showing us how the figure of the female detective had to be constructed in the late Victorian era, this is a fascinating read.
    • 4/5
      Young society lady of New York, Violet Strange, investigates various cases
      1 The Golden Slipper - who really is responsible for various thefts
      2 - The Second Bullet - When George Hammond dies,is it suicide or murder. Finding a second bullet would mean mirder and finalcial relief for the widow.
      3 - An Intangible Clue - When Mrs Doolittle is murdered there seems to be no clue to the murderer.
      4 - The Grotto Spectre - Roger Upjohn, widower, a year after his wife's death needs to know the truth regarding his suspicions,
      5 - The Dreaming Lady - Mrs Quintard sister to C Dudley Brooks, dead, has lost his latest will which has changed the main beneficiary to her family away from her brother's step-son.
      6 - The House of Clocks - Arabella Postlethwaite, of Gloom Cottage, wants her will drawn and invites lawyer to her home, but it is the fate of the step-daughter that concerns him
      7 - The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - It has been several years since the murder of Mr Hasbrouck, a crime that is still unsolved, until a confession is made, but is it the truth
      8 - Missing: Page Thirteen - Mr Cornell believes his honour is at stake when a page with a formula on goes missing from a document. But what secrets will be revealed.
      9 - Violet's own - Violet reveals the family secret to her future husband on the eve of her wedding.
      A set of enjoyable short mysteries
    • 4/5
      I read one of the Violet Strange short stories last year as part of an anthology (I can't remember which one); it was my first introduction to Anna Katherine Green's work and I liked it enough that I wanted to read more.  In that story, (The Intangible Clew), Strange showed a distinctive Sherlock Holmes flair, and I was intrigued.  
       
      I've found and read a couple of her books and loved them, but it took longer to find a copy of this book - the one I most wanted to read - that was available and affordable.  I'd heard it wasn't her best work, and sadly, I have to agree; the first story in fact was just down right rubbish, the second one only a little bit better: more coherent but absurdly plotted.
       
      But Anna Katherine Green did two things - one of them something I've personally not seen before, which accounts for my slightly high rating.  The first is that every story got better than the one before it - the improvement in the writing and plotting is obvious, and one of these days I'll sit down and do the google-fu necessary to find out if these stories were early efforts, and therefore show a natural progression in her writing, or if there's some other reason.  But as the book goes on the stories get exponentially better.
       
      The second thing that elevated the book for me was that each story was a complete stand-alone short story (except the very last one).  Any of them could be read cold and the reader would miss nothing.  But when read together, there's a thin plot that holds them all together, and, it turns out, a romance; one that's hardly hinted at in any of the stories until the second-last.  The last story isn't really a story at all, but Violet's coda in the form of a letter, explaining her motives for taking on the cases.
       
      This subtle dichotomy made the uneven collection feel more finely crafted than it really was, and in spite of its flaws it feels clever and fresh.  The writing is a little more florid than the other AKG books I've read so far, and she breaks the fourth wall constantly; something I didn't mind but occasionally felt a little condescending-ish.
       
      So - not brilliant, not her best work by far, but interesting and worth experiencing and definitely worth the effort I made to read it.