That Affair Next Door

Description

Miss Amelia Butterworth is unmarried but quite content as an observer of human nature - until late one evening she notices a man and woman enter the supposedly empty house next door, whose owners are away on a trip abroad. Suspiciously, the man leaves the house some time later, but the woman doesn't follow. The next morning Miss Butterworth finds the woman dead, mysteriously crushed under a cabinet. When Detective Ebenezer Gryce takes on the case, Miss Butterworth decides to take matters into her own hands and solve the murder herself.

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (1846-1935) was an American writer of detective fiction known as the mother of the mystery novel.

"Cleverly plotted mystery...this inaugural volume in the Library of Congress Crime Classics series, featuring the first woman sleuth in a series, is a must for genre buffs." - Publishers Weekly, STARRED review