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    The Bronze Hand: 1897
    The Bronze Hand: 1897
    The Bronze Hand: 1897
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    The Bronze Hand: 1897

    By Anna Katharine Green

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    Anna Katharine Green was one of the earliest detective fiction writers, and some of her mysteries remain the most popular to be written by an American.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 15, 2016
    ISBN9781518370922
    The Bronze Hand: 1897
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    Anna Katharine Green

    Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American writer and prominent figure in the detective genre. Born in New York City, Green developed an affinity for literature at an early age. She studied at Ripley Female College in Vermont and was mentored by poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of Green’s best-known works is The Leavenworth Case, which was published in 1878. It was a critical and commercial success that made her one of the leading voices in literature. Over the course of her career, Green would go on to write nearly 40 books.

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      The Bronze Hand - Anna Katharine Green

      THE BRONZE HAND: 1897

      ..................

      Anna Katharine Green

      CLUE PUBLISHING

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Anna Katharine Green

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      I. THE FASCINATING UNKNOWN.

      II. THE QUAKER-LIKE GIRL, THE PALE GIRL, AND THE MAN WITH A BRISTLING MUSTACHE.

      III. MADAME.

      IV. CHECKMATE.

      V. DOCTOR MERRIAM.

      VI. THE BOX AGAIN.

      The Bronze Hand: 1897

      By

      Anna Katharine Green

      The Bronze Hand: 1897

      Published by Clue Publishing

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1935

      Copyright © Clue Publishing, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Clue Publishing

      Everyone loves a classic whodunit, and Clue Publishing is devoted to bringing them all to readers, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes stories to lesser known mysteries written by authors like Richard Marsh and Louis Tracy.

      I. THE FASCINATING UNKNOWN.

      ..................

      HER ROOM WAS ON THE ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for seeing her were limited to short glimpses of her auburn head as she leaned out of the window to close her shutters at night or open them in the morning. Yet our chance encounter in the hall or on the walk in front, had made so deep an impression upon my sensibilities that I was never without the vision of her pale face set off by the aureole of reddish brown hair, which, since my first meeting with her, had become for me the symbol of everything beautiful, incomprehensible and strange.

      For my fellow-lodger was a mystery.

      I am a busy man now, but just at the time of which I speak, I had leisure in abundance.

      I was sharing with many others the unrest of the perilous days subsequent to the raid of John Brown at Harper’s Ferry. Abraham Lincoln had been elected President. Baltimore, where the incidents I am relating transpired, had become the headquarters of men who secretly leagued themselves in antagonism to the North. Men and women who felt that their Northern brethren had grievously wronged them planned to undermine the stability of the government. The schemes at this time were gigantic in their conception and far-reaching in their scope and endless ramifications.

      Naturally under these conditions, a consciousness of ever-present danger haunted every thinking mind. The candor of the outspoken was regarded with doubt, and the reticence of the more cautious, with distrust. It was a trying time for sensitive, impressionable natures with nothing to do. Perhaps all this may account for the persistency with which I sat in my open window. I was thus sitting one night—a memorable one to me—when I heard a sharp exclamation from below, in a voice I had long listened for.

      Any utterance from those lips would have attracted my attention; but, filled as this was with marked, if not extraordinary, emotion, I could not fail to be roused to a corresponding degree of curiosity and interest.

      Thrusting out my head, I cast a rapid glance downward. A shutter swinging in the wind, and the escaping figure of a man hurrying round the corner of the street, were all that rewarded my scrutiny; though, from the stream of light issuing from the casement beneath, I perceived that her window, like my own, was wide open.

      As I continued to watch this light, I saw her thrust out her head with an eagerness indicative of great excitement. Peering to right and left, she murmured some suppressed words mixed with gasps of such strong feeling that I involuntarily called out:

      Excuse me, madam, have you been frightened in any way by the man I saw running away from here a moment ago?

      She gave a great start and glanced up. I see her face yet—beautiful, wonderful; so beautiful and so wonderful I have never been able to forget it. Meeting my

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