The Golden Slipper and Other Problems..., Anna Katharine Green
The Golden Slipper and Other Problems..., Anna Katharine Green
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Narrator: Aimee Lilly

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 12/13/2022


Synopsis

One of Author Anna Katharine Green's innovations was the idea of the “girl detective,” in the person of
Violet Strange. Violet was a 17-year-old high-society debutante who led a double
life as a sleuth, working for an unnamed detective agency to discreetly ferret out
solutions to mysteries that could not be trusted to the police. The short stories in
this collection give us a glimpse into New York society, filled with musicales and
teas and ballgowns, but neither the tales nor Violet are light-hearted and fluffy.
Happy endings aren’t guaranteed, and we’re often left with a sense of
melancholy. Some of the stories are even a bit macabre. But over a century later,
the well-plotted, legally-accurate yarns still satisfy one’s desire for solid
resolutions to seemingly insoluble mysteries.

About The Author

Anna Katharine Green, known as the “mother of the detective novel,” was one of the first American writers of detective fiction, making the genre popular a full decade before the first Sherlock Holmes story was published. She also introduced the concept of the “series detective” in the character of Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force—and she also gave the world Miss Amelia Butterworth, a nosy spinster snoop who was the prototype for Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, among many others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tweety on July 14, 2015

It's only after reading all these short mystery stories that the full force of the titles hit you. I don't know which was the worst, but I think perhaps The Doctor, His Wife, and The Clock was the most awful of them. Or was it Missing Page 13? No, it was The Second Bullet. Anyway, here's a brief rev......more

Goodreads review by Lorena on November 24, 2018

I really enjoyed this book, more a series of classic short mysteries. Violet Strange is a turn-of-the-century New York socialite. As she solves increasingly high-stakes mysteries among her set, the reader also gradually picks up clues as to why she would risk her own reputation to act as a detective......more

Goodreads review by Bev on January 26, 2015

The Golden Slipper & Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915) is a collection of stories by Anna Katharine Green featuring an early edition of that familiar figure, the "girl detective." Violet Strange is a pretty young debutante with a wealthy father and the spare time to secretly investigate vario......more

Goodreads review by Ren on November 30, 2010

Nancy Who?......more

Goodreads review by Julie on August 22, 2021

I always enjoy these older mysteries when they feature female detectives. This is a series of short stories where a well placed debutante, Violet Strange, is commissioned to investigate different crimes. What is making these especially interesting is that she never wants to detect anything and must......more