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Lots of sudden deaths & dark doings,
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Anna Katherine Green (1846-1935) was known for her complex plots, and the plot is the best thing about this book. There's no real development of several of the main characters. They just plunge into their adventures with glittering eyes and pounding hearts.
Initially the mystery revolves around the death of a beloved young minister, Mr. Barrows, who's found drowned in the vat of an old abandoned mill. In a modern thriller, forensics would quickly determined if it was suicide or murder. But no such luck in 1886, when this book was published. A beautiful young woman called Constance has to figure it out. Constance is constant to a promise she made to her roommate Ada Reynolds, the fiancée of Mr. Barrows. Ada does not accept the idea of suicide and wants Constance to clear her lover's name of this awful suspicion. Ada drops dead of heart failure just after Mr. Barrows' death. Sudden deaths are rife in this novel. Constance finds a sinister connection between the clergyman and the rich and locally prominent Pollard family. In the earliest stages of her contact with them, she's drawn to the oldest son of the family - a somewhat unconvincing case of love at first sight. This naturally complicates her investigation, which will be full of shocking discoveries. Green at her best is a melodramatic but ingenious weaver of mysteries. She helped shape the genre of detective fiction, and her influence lives on in Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes. This is not her best effort, however. I'd recommend instead The Leavenworth Case, her greatest mystery. Another good one is The House of the Whispering Pines. But if you're reading all her works, as I am, The Mill Mystery will be of interest.
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Dwight Pollard, Miss Sterling, Rhoda Colwell, Guy Pollard, Miss Merriam, Constance Sterling, David Barrows, Miss Colwell, Samuel Pollard, Ada Reynolds, Good God, Miss Pollard, Orchard Street New!
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I had just come in from the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Dwight Pollard, Miss Sterling, Rhoda Colwell, Guy Pollard, Miss Merriam, Constance Sterling, David Barrows, Miss Colwell, Samuel Pollard, Ada Reynolds, Good God, Miss Pollard, Orchard Street New!
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- The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women by Catherine Ross Nickerson in Back Matter
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