By
Anna Katharine Green
12o. Frontispiece by A. I. Keller. $1.35
The dominant figure in this series of detective stories is a young girl, Violet Strange—detective par excellence. She observes sharply, thinks intensely, and has the faculty of disentangling, out of a maze of perplexing circumstances, the one explanation that accords with facts, and carries out her reasoning with the most consummate ability.
The author wrote “The Leavenworth Case” nearly forty years ago, and ever since has steadily maintained an important position among writers of fiction.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York London
Transcriber’s Notes:
On page 7, grimmess has been changed to grimness.
On page 9, known has been changed to know.