Room Number 3

by Anna Katharine Green

American author Anna Katharine Green helped to originate the classic detective story, publishing her first works a full ten years before Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes tales hit the shelves in England. This collection brings together a diverse array of Green's mystery and detective stories.

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 1909

About the author

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) 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. Born in Brooklyn, New York, her early ambition was to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books. She was in some ways a progressive woman for her time-succeeding in a genre dominated by male writers-but she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and she was opposed to women's suffrage. Her other works include A Strange Disappearance (1880), The Affair Next Door (1897), The Circular Study (1902), The Filigree Ball (1903), The Millionaire Baby (1905), The House in the Mist (1905), The Woman in the Alcove (1906), The House of the Whispering Pines (1910), Initials Only (1912), and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917).

Reviews

[Tweety · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm sure I've read this before in one of the collections. That said it was still good the second time round, and I'd forgotten enough that I didn't remember the conclusion. I had a lot of fun in this 'lost room' murder mystery, and as always, i love how Anna Katherine Green builds the suspenseful atmosphere. She's one of my favorites. She does do more telling than showing at times with her stories, but the story itself is usually good enough for me to over look that.

[Barbara Clifford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting srory.

[Janith Pathirage · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an alright story but not a very good one. This flick lacks intelligence and cunning to become a great detective story. But considering the fact that, its one of the earlier detective stories of world literature, I won't be too harsh on this one. But I wowed to myself, no more Wilkie Collins or Anna Katharine Green. I already had a pretty awful week with them.