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This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1903 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Filigree Ball' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was year's bestseller, establishing Green's reputation. Green wrote at a time when fiction, and especially crime fiction, was dominated by men. However, she is now credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the trope of the recurring detective.
"The Filigree Ball" is a detective novel by Anna Katharine Green, telling about the investigation of a murder. The young woman, who's just been married, is found dead in an empty mansion she inherited as a child. Although first, the investigation concludes it was a suicide, a young detective proves the woman was killed, and her newlywed husband and his sister are primary suspects.
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Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair.
Dive in to this gripping mystery from Brooklyn-born author Anna Katharine Green. Credited as one of the originators of the genre of detective fiction, Green's ability to concoct intricate plots that leave even the most careful reader guessing until the very end is on full display in the novel The Filigree Ball.
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For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been expressed in words. Though I had small reason for expecting great things of myself, I had always cherished the hope that if a big case came my way I should be found able to do something with it something more, that is, than I had seen accomplished by the police of the District of Columbia since I had had the honor of being one of their number. Therefore, when I found myself plunged, almost without my own volition, into the Jeffrey Moore affair, I believed that the opportunity had come whereby I might distinguish myself. It had complications, this Jeffrey-Moore affair; greater ones than the public ever knew, keen as the interest in it ran both in and out of Washington. This is why I propose to tell the story of this great tragedy from my own standpoint, even if in so doing I risk the charge of attempting to exploit my own connection with this celebrated case. In its course I encountered as many disappointments as triumphs, and brought out of the affair a heart as sore as it was satisfied; for I am a lover of women and— But I am keeping you from the story itself.
Excerpt from The Filigree Ball: Being a Full, and True Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair It was all so trivial that I gave him but scant attention till he let a name fall which caused me to prick up my ears and even to put in a word. The Moore house, he had said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.