Lost Man's Lane

Anna Katharine Green

• Publisher: Start Classics
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781627936200
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Ever since my fortunate—or shall I say unfortunate?—connection with that famous case of murder in Gramercy Park, I have had it intimated to me by many of my friends—and by some who were not my friends—that no woman who had met with such success as myself in detective work would ever be satisfied with a single display of her powers, and that sooner or later I would find myself again at work upon some other case of striking peculiarities. As vanity has never been my foible, and as, moreover, I never have forsaken and never am likely to forsake the plain path marked out for my sex, at any other call than that of duty, I invariably responded to these insinuations by an affable but incredulous smile, striving to excuse the presumption of my friends by remembering their ignorance of my nature and the very excellent reasons I had for my one notable interference in the police affairs of New York City. Besides, though I appeared to be resting quietly, if not in entire contentment, on my laurels, I was not so utterly removed from the old atmosphere of crime and its detection as the world in general considered me to be. Mr. Gryce still visited me; not on business, of course, but as a friend, for whom I had some regard; and naturally our conversation was not always confined to the weather or even to city politics, provocative as the latter subject is of wholesome controversy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth
• Copyright
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• BOOK I
• I. A VISIT FROM MR. GRYCE
• II. I AM TEMPTED
• III. I SUCCUMB
• IV. A GHOSTLY INTERIOR
• V. A STRANGE HOUSEHOLD
• VI. A SOMBRE EVENING
• VII. THE FIRST NIGHT
• VIII. ON THE STAIRS
• IX. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
• X. SECRET INSTRUCTIONS
• XI. MEN, WOMEN, AND GHOSTS
• XII. THE PHANTOM COACH
• XIII. GOSSIP
• XIV. I FORGET MY AGE, OR, RATHER, REMEMBER IT
• BOOK II
• XV. LUCETTA FULFILS MY EXPECTATION OF HER
• XVI. LOREEN
• XVII. THE FLOWER PARLOR
• XVIII. THE SECOND NIGHT
• XIX. A KNOT OF CRAPE
• XX. QUESTIONS
• XXI. MOTHER JANE
• XXII. THE THIRD NIGHT
• BOOK III
• XXIII. ROOM 3, HOTEL CARTER
• XXIV. THE ENIGMA OF NUMBERS
• XXV. TRIFLES, BUT NOT TRIFLING
• XXVI. A POINT GAINED
• XXVII. THE TEXT WITNESSETH
• XXVIII. AN INTRUSION
• XXIX. IN THE CELLAR
• XXX. INVESTIGATION
• XXXI. STRATEGY
• XXXII. RELIEF
• BOOK IV
• XXXIII. LUCETTA
• XXXIV. CONDITIONS
• XXXV. THE DOVE
• XXXVI. AN HOUR OF STARTLING EXPERIENCES
• XXXVII. I ASTONISH MR. GRYCE AND HE ASTONISHES ME
• XXXVIII. A FEW WORDS
• XXXIX. UNDER A CRIMSON SKY
• XL. EXPLANATIONS
• EPILOGUE