The Amethyst Box

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Amethyst Box' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878)...