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The Sword of Damocles

The Sword of Damocles

by Anna Katharine GREEN (1864 - 1935)

Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief appearance by her famous detective, Mr Gryce, but at the heart of the book, which is subtitled A Story of New York Life, are a number of very different love stories. (Summary by Mary Bard)


A Day at the Bank

A Discussion

A Hand Clasp

A Man's Justice and a Woman's Mercy

A Mysterious Summons

A Question

A Wanderer

An Adventure - or Something More

Bluebeard's Chamber

Departure

Determination

From A. to Z

Full Tide

Grave and Gay

Half-past Seven

Hopgood

In Mr. Stuyvesant's Parlors

In the Night Watches

Jacqueline

Miss Belinda has a Question to Decide

Miss Belinda Makes Conditions

Miss Belinda Presents Mr. Sylvester with a Christmas Gift

Miss Stuyvesant

Mist in the Valley

Morning

Mrs. Sylvester

Paula

Paula Makes her Choice

Paula Relates a Story She has Heard

Searchings

Shadows of the Past

Sunshine on the Hills

The Barred Door

The Dregs in the Cup

The End of My Lady's Picture

The Falling of the Sword

"The Hour of Six is Sacred!"

The Japha Mansion

The Lone Watcher

The Man Cummins

The Opinion of a Certain Noted Detective

The Poem

The Rubicon

The Sword of Damocles

The Work of an Hour

Two Letters