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    The Gray Madam
    The Gray Madam
    The Gray Madam
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    The Gray Madam

    By Anna Katharine Green

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    The Gray Madam' is one of Green's short stories 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). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was year's bestseller, establishing Green's reputation. Green wrote at a time when fiction, and especially crime fiction, was dominated by men. However, she is now credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the trope of the recurring detective.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781627936972
    The Gray Madam
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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 Gray Madam - Anna Katharine Green

      The Gray Madam

      By Anna Katharine Green

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2013

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      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-62793-697-2

      WAS it a specter?

      For days I could not answer this question. I am no believer in spiritual manifestations, yet--But let me tell my story.

      I was lodging with my wife on the first floor of a house in Twenty-seventh street. I had taken the apartments for three months, and we had already lived in them two and found them sufficiently comfortable. The back room we used as a bedroom, and while it communicated with the hall, we invariably made use of the front parlor-door to go in and out of. Two great leaves of old mahogany connected the two rooms, and as we received but few friends, these doors usually stood half open.

      One morning, my wife being ill, I left her lying in bed and stepped into the parlor preparatory to going out for breakfast. It was late--nine o'clock, probably--and I was hastening to leave, when I heard a sound behind me--or did I merely feel a presence?--and, turning, saw a strange and totally unknown woman coming toward me from my wife's room.

      As I had just left that room, and as there was no way of getting into it except through a door we always kept locked, I was so overpowered by my astonishment that I never thought of speaking or moving until she had passed me. Then I found voice, and calling out Madam! endeavored to stop her.

      But the madam, if madam she was, passed on as quietly, as mechanically even, as if I had not raised my voice, and, before I could grasp the fact

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