Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, The
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    [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. 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. 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.
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