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Agatha Webb: A Classic Detective Novel of Murder, Blackmail, and Village Secrets
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515425717
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A respected woman and her servant are murdered in a quiet New England village, and every respectable surface begins to crack. Agatha Webb was known for sorrow, charity, and mystery; after her death, old rumours about the loss of her children return, a wealthy man is drawn into blackmail, and suspicion spreads through Sutherlandtown like a fever. The case falls to Caleb Sweetwater, a young detective with personal ties to the village and a gift for seeing what others miss.
Anna Katharine Green builds Agatha Webb from the classic materials of early American mystery: a shocking crime, a closed community, hidden motives, family secrets, romance, and a courtroom climax where the truth finally breaks into the open. First seen in A Strange Disappearance, Sweetwater emerges here as a fully developed detective figure, later to reappear as an assistant to Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Police Department. For readers of classic detective fiction, legal mystery, Victorian-era crime novels, and early women mystery writers, Agatha Webb is a key Black Curtain title from one of the genre's true pioneers.
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