AMELIA BUTTERWORTH: A PIONEERING SPINSTER DETECTIVE BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Table of contents
Table of contents
Introduction
Framing the Spinster Detective
Contextualising the detective genre
Characteristics of detective novels
Authors dealing with mystery stories before and after Anna Katharine Green
The ‘Mother of Detective Fiction’: Anna Katharine Green
The arrival of the spinster detective
Amelia Butterworth as the first spinster detective
An Analysis of the First Spinster Detective
That Affair Next Door
Lost Man’s Lane
A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia ButterworthThe Circular Study
Conclusions
Bibliography and Webgraphy
Annex
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