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Celebrated as one of the most important early female writers of detective fiction, Anna Katherine Green was lauded for her meticulous plotting and attention to detail. In this classic mystery novel, Agatha Webb and a household servant are found dead. Detective Caleb Sweetwater works to untangle the plot that involves blackmail, family secrets, and murder.
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Table of contents
- AGATHA WEBB
- Contents
- BOOK I - THE PURPLE ORCHID
- I - A Cry on the Hill
- II - One Night's Work
- III - The Empty Drawer
- IV - The Full Drawer
- V - A Spot on the Lawn
- VI - "Breakfast is Served, Gentlemen!"
- VII - "Marry Me"
- VIII - "A Devil that Understands Men"
- IX - A Grand Woman
- X - Detective Knapp Arrives
- XI - The Man with a Beard
- XII - Wattles Comes
- XIII - Wattles Goes
- XIV - A Final Temptation
- XV - The Zabels Visited
- XVI - Local Talent at Work
- XVII - The Slippers, the Flower, and What Sweetwater Made of Them
- XVIII - Some Leading Questions
- XIX - Poor Philemon
- XX - A Surprise for Mr. Sutherland
- BOOK II - THE MAN OF NO REPUTATION
- XXI - Sweetwater Reasons
- XXII - Sweetwater Acts
- XXIII - A Sinister Pair
- XXIV - In the Shadow of the Mast
- XXV - In Extremity
- XXVI - The Adventure of the Parcel
- XXVII - The Adventure of the Scrap of Paper and the Three Words
- XXVIII - "Who Are You?"
- XXIX - Home Again
- BOOK III - HAD BATSY LIVED!
- XXX - What Followed the Striking of the Clock
- XXXI - A Witness Lost
- XXXII - Why Agatha Webb Will Never Be Forgotten in Sutherlandtown
- XXXIII - Father and Son
- XXXIV - "Not When They Are Young Girls"
- XXXV - Sweetwater Pays His Debt at Last to Mr. Sutherland
- Endnotes
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