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...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 (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father)....

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...ourne theatres to accept or even read them. Hume was a capable writer of mystery stories, and may be looked upon as one of the precursors of the many writers of detective stories whose work was so popular in the twentieth century. (Summary Wikipedia)...

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...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 (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father)....

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...umbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate. Thus begins this mystery told by Anna Katharine Green, one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and renowned for writing well plotted, legally accurate stories.(Summary by Annise)...

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...nt the withering of a plant in such conditions. Its wilting is bound to elude the finest of detectives if he refuses to acknowledge my sodden contri... ... friends and recounted some futile anecdotes. The ceremony held by the municipality in the Writers Hall was open to the public. I said to Nomi: "... ...e" – Dani is soft-spoken even when his words are not. That evening, Nomi and I went to the Writers' Hall. A woman with anorectic eyes compared our ...

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...A FLIGHT..................................................................................................................................... 102 THE DETECTIVE POLICE.........................................................................................................112 THREE ?DETECTIVE? ANECDOTES ...........................................................................

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..................................................... ............... 102 THE DETECTIVE POLICE.............................................................. ..................................................................11 2 THREE ‘DETECTIVE’ ANECDOTES ......................................................... ...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was... ...s in eleven hours. It is so well done, that there really is no hurry!’ THE DETECTIVE POLICE WE ARE NOT BY ANY MEANS devout believers in the old B... ... Al though as a Preventive Police they were utterly ineffective, and as a Detective Police were very loose and uncertain in their operations, they re... ...th some people a supersti tion to the present day. On the other hand, the Detective Force organised since the establishment of the existing Police, i... ...but, whatever one asserts, the other contradicts. They are both voluminous writers, indicting more epistles than Lord Chesterfield in a single week; a...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ... questions that clamoured for instant solution. By dint of read- ing solid writers, using the brains they possessed, it was re- vealed to them gradual... ...e without looking; and when her eyes were wide they had not to dwell to be detective. It did not escape her that the Englishman of the two hurried for... ...n woman!’ He was unacquainted with her! She had not the heart to think the writers donkeys. How they obtained her address was a puzzle; they stole in ...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...

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... almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficul... ...ich therefore had the honor of producing perhaps the most char- acteristic writers of the nineteenth century in prose and verse respectively . The fam... ... his sister tells us, enthusiastically, though there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who ... ...d into what was his voca- tion, and like some, though not very many, great writers, at first did little better in it than if it had not been his vocat... ...se defects of style and form which distinguish him so remarkably from most writers of his rank. It very seldom happens when a very young man writes ve... ...n given with a scrupulous and micro- scopic accuracy of reporting which no detective could outdo. Defoe is not more circumstantial in detail of fact t...

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... you got to say against my profession?” “Well, really, you know. There are detectives of an inferior description—watchers. The whole class. Private In... ...rious tumult of exultation, the passion of laughter, that came boiling up. Detective! Even in the shadow Bechamel saw that a laugh was stifled, but he... ...he interview terminated. Bechamel went back to the Angel, perturbed. “Hang detectives!” It wasn’t the kind of thing he had anticipated at all. Hoopdri... ...ng eyes. Abruptly came a wave of anger that surprised him, washed away the detective super- structure, and left him plain Mr. Hoopdriver. This man in ... ... came into Mr. Hoopdriver’s head. Surely it had not come to that. He was a detective!—he would find out. How was it to be done? He began to submit ske... ...—and, well—a Ouida or so. They’re good stories, of course, and first-class writers, but they didn’t seem to have much to do with me. But there’s heaps...

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...roes and to Diderot’s homespun characters (see the first editions of those writers’ works). The Marquis always wore a white, gold-embroidered, high wa... ...esnel’s instructions, they would have been compelled to take three private detectives into their pay. And 43 Balzac yet there was ample wisdom shown ... ...on were lucid, clear-sighted, and perspicacious. They kept up a vigor- ous detective system throughout the kingdom; they did the work of spies, and ur...

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... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ... cessor, Bibi-Lupin, has had misfortunes; but he is to-day the head of the detective police, the important functions of which office he fulfils with r... ...ow all about him,” replied Rastignac; “do you sup- pose there are no other detectives in Paris? I know that since 1830, when he took Bibi-Lupin’s plac... ..., who had given him a letter to Monsieur de Saint-Esteve, the chief of the detective police. Aware of the antecedents of that man, Monsieur de Sallena... ... out of Nucingen for La T orpille. Isn’t she some relation to the chief of detective police, who bears the same name, and used to be one of the same k... ...nced,— “Monsieur de Saint-Esteve.” The salon which the famous chief of the detective police now entered was remarkable for the luxury, but still more ...

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...a matter of will-power.” He started a magazine serial about a scien- tific detective. Ten miles on, he was conscious that he desired to smoke. He duck... ...ething like it! It would be an adventure story, maybe about counterfeiting—detectives sneaking up on the old house at night. He tucked the book under ... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...is a birth, in another a death, in a third a sordid drinking-bout, and the detective and the Bible-reader cross upon the stairs. High words are audibl... ...e the beginning of history. The date is reassuring; for I think cau- tious writers are silent on the General’s exploits. But the stone is connected wi... ...and without exactly casting in one’s lot with that disenchanting school of writers, one cannot help hearing a good deal of the winter wind in the last...

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...t of him- self. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story . It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit o... ... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...lerks of a city firm. They always seemed a little tired. I had never known writers before, and I found them very strange, but I do not think they ever... ...ord was there and Mrs. Jay , Richard T wining and George Road. We were all writers. It was a fine day , early in spring, and we were in a good humour.... ...subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective nov- els of Gaboriau. I amused myself by thinking that in his cho...

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...breed, who spends her days stretched on a sofa, turning the lantern of her detective spirit on the obscurest depths of souls, sentiments, and intrigue... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...ects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers? In every household the plague of servants is nowadays the worst of... ...doubt told you, the monster means to watch me night and day; he spoke of a detective! Do not come here, he is capable of anything I know, since he cou... ...ain admission to the lawyer, had used the terrible name of the head of the detective force. The man in waiting announced: “Madame de Saint-Esteve.” “I... ... and the Prefet did me the honor to agree with my remarks. The Head of the detective branch has orders, in my presence, to take no steps; so if you ha... ...ch, which was brought to bear against the predecessor of our present chief detective. Bibi-Lupin undertook investiga- tions for the benefit of private... ...norant poverty and mis- ery driven to bay, flourish the last public letter-writers who are to be found in Paris. Wherever you see the two words “Ecriv...

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...d at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequate police existed except the detective police of Bow Street, admirable for its own pe- culiar purposes, ... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ...ooked by those who either write En- glish history or comment upon it. Most writers of or upon English history proceed either upon servile principles, ... ...s pretensions are at stake. Pretty much under the same feeling have modern writers written with a rancorous party spirit of the political struggles in...

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...s-board, should break the mould of their succession? The like had befallen Napoleon (so writers said) when the winter changed the time of its appearan... ...e can no further go.’ ‘It is wonderful,’ said his wife. ‘Y ou should indeed have been a detective, Henri. I had no idea of your talents.’ ‘My dear,’ r... ...ondescendingly, ‘a man of scientific imagination combines the lesser faculties; he is a detective just as he is a publicist or a general; these are bu... ...ing treasure, the other two-thirds were more pleasingly busied in the retrospect of his detective skill. About eleven Casimir arrived; he had caught a...

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... Personality. It had never occurred to him at all vividly that these Great Writers had real abiding places. She gave him a few descriptive touches tha... ...hed, one might imagine with a warning in- tention. Lewisham, recalling his detective responsibility with an ef- fort, peered about him, but the room w... ...ught-read their daughters and hypnotise their aunts, and leave their type- writers alone.” “But what am I to do?” “That’s not it. There are things one... ...e flank. “What are you after?” said Smithers in a noisy whisper and with a detective eye on the papers. He perceived Lewisham was scrutinising the adv...

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...curious trait in the character of that mon- arch—he employed Bryond in his detective police through- out his reign.” “Oh, kings! kings!” cried Godefro... ...gave ten thousand to the younger Chaussard, whom he took with him into the detective po- lice and innoculated with his vices; his other accomplices go... ...ghbor, he thinks, would kill his daughter. On the second floor we have two writers; they don’t come in till midnight, and are off before eight in the ...

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...ora, they pay no at- tention to the reptiles; happily, they abandon to the writers of comedy the shading and colorings of a Chardin des Lupeaulx. Vain... ...do the work gratis for a certain number of years), various copying clerks, writers of bills and deeds, order clerks, principal clerks, sec- ond or und... ..., Bievre, Fontenay-aux-Roses, and Aulnay, so famous as the resort of great writers, and hoped in time to know the whole western side of the country ar... ... the great comic players. Launched into the world of actors and actresses, writers, artists, and certain women of uncertain means, he lived well, went... ...cabinets, and it would be a pity there- fore to employ him on our internal detective police. He is above a common spy, for he is able to understand a ...