That Affair Next Door
Anna Katharine Green
A young woman is found dead in the empty house next to Amelia Butterworth's, and the curious spinster starts her own investigation. Her rivalry with Detective Ebenezer Gryce makes this one of the liveliest police novels of its era.
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