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Anna Katherine Green

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Anna Katherine Green 1846–1935, American detective-story writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vt., 1867. Of her many thrillers, characterized by logical construction and a knowledge of criminal law, The Leavenworth Case (1878) is the best known.

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Green, Anna Katharine

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Green, Anna Katharine (1846–1935), author of The Leavenworth Case (1878), which, though not the first detective story or the greatest, established the formula and the popularity of this new literary form in the U.S. She wrote many other detective novels.

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