The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

by Anna Katharine Green (1915)

audiobook read by Shelly Frasier (Tantor, 2009) [as “Mystery Stories of Violet Strange”]

This collection of detective novelettes holds up quite well, though their virtue lies more in the refined telling than in the mystery element (which often relies on highly improbable concatenations) or denouements (which generally lack catharsis). Violet herself makes a memorable impression.