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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)

Listen next episodes of The Sword of Damocles:
A Man's Justice and a Woman's Mercy , A Question , Bluebeard's Chamber , Determination , From A. to Z , Full Tide , Half-past Seven , In Mr. Stuyvesant's Parlors , Jacqueline , Miss Belinda Presents Mr. Sylvester with a Christmas Gift , Mist in the Valley , Morning , Paula Makes her Choice , Paula Relates a Story She has Heard , Sunshine on the Hills , The Falling of the Sword , "The Hour of Six is Sacred!" , The Lone Watcher , The Man Cummins , The Opinion of a Certain Noted Detective , The Work of an Hour , Two Letters