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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green An old and dilapidated inn in upstate New York provides the setting for this gothic mystery involving... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green An old and dilapidated inn in upstate New York provides the setting for this gothic mystery involving two couples in the... Read Full Overview

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 (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father). Born in Brooklyn, New York,... Read Full Overview

"The Forsaken Inn - A Novel" from Anna Katharine Green. American poet and novelist (1846-1935).

"I have but one room left," I said to this latecomer. "And one is all I want," he said. Then, with a quick glance at my face: "I suppose you are a little particular whom you put into the oak parlor. Not everyone appreciates such romantic surroundings." I looked... Read Full Overview

The Forsaken Inn is a historical mystery novel set in the late 18th century, about a young newly-wed couple staying the night at the Inn, and leaving the next day. Several years later a secret room is discovered with the bride's body in it. But, many people saw the bride leave... Read Full Overview

"The vivid flashes of lightning that shot every now and then through the cracks of the closely shuttered window, making a skeleton of its framework, added not a little to its terror, there being no other light in the room save that....

"An abandoned inn, a crime that... Read Full Overview

Anna Katharine Green (1846 - 1935) was an American writer best known for detective fiction. Green is considered the mother of the detective novel and wrote some of the most famous works in crime fiction before the Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes stories were published... Read Full Overview