Here is another episode of the “The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange” by Anna Katherine Green. Green has been called the Mother of the Detective Novel and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. We’ll be reading Problem III, “An Intangible Clue” – A real challenge for Violet Strange, Debutante Detective!
This week’s story is “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Glaspell co-founded the first modern American theater company, the Provincetown Players, and...
Ferber wrote short stories, plays and novels which were adapting into sizzling, popular movies. “Giant” was adapted as a blockbuster Hollywood movie in 1956...
This week we rise up from the dark dredges of horror and gothic literature, into the light and “transcendental” work of Louisa May Alcott,...