![]() ![]() Green’s influence and reputation were so great at the time that Arthur Conan Doyle made a point of seeking her out during an 1894 visit to the United States. It is also the first such novel ever written by a woman, and in the views of some historians, the first bona fide American bestseller, selling a staggering three-quarters of a million copies over a 15-year period. So, now try to name the mother of the American detective story, the woman who produced the first mystery novel written on these shores.Įven devotees of the genre may have a hard time coming up with the name Anna Katharine Green, whose 1878 book The Leavenworth Case is widely regarded as the first American detective novel.Īnna Katharine Green, 1846-1935. Auguste Dupin.īut like all living things, the mystery genre has two parents. The fact that you’re reading this magazine means you most likely know that it was Edgar Allan Poe, whose 1841 story “Murders in the Rue Morgue” introduced the concept of the detective hero in the person of C. ![]() Here’s a pop quiz for mystery buffs: name the father of the American detective story. ![]()
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