That Affair Next Door
by Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green (1846 – 1935) was an American writer best known for detective fiction. Green is considered the mother of the detective novel and wrote some of the most famous works in crime fiction before the Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes stories were published. Green\'s best known novels are the Amelia Butterworth Mysteries which consist of That Affair Next Door, Lost Man\'s Lane, and The Circular Study.