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One of Author Anna Katharine Greens innovations was the idea of the girl detective in the person of
Violet Strange Violet was a 17yearold highsociety 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 lighthearted and fluffy
Happy endings arent guaranteed and were often left with a sense of
melancholy Some of the stories are even a bit macabre But over a century later
the wellplotted legallyaccurate yarns still satisfy ones desire for solid
resolutions to seemingly insoluble mysteries