格林成功地使侦探小说发展成为经典的模式,并且开创了侦探系列小说的时代。她书中的主要侦探是来自纽约警察局的埃比尼泽·古莱(Ebenezer Gryce),但古莱在连续三本书中被一名爱管闲事的老处女——阿米莉亚·巴特沃斯(Amelia Butterworth)所协助。而阿米莉亚也是马普尔小姐(Miss Marple)、西丽佛小姐(Miss Silver)和其他一些人物的原型。格林也是第一个大胆“雇佣”少女作侦探的作家。比如在《The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915)》一書中,有着谜一样身世的、初次进入社会的微兒蕾特·史特蘭奇。诚然,正如记者凯西·希克曼(Kathy Hickman)所说,格林“为模糊的小说流派贴上了鲜明的标签,而这影响了从阿加莎·克里斯蒂、柯南·道尔到当代专写悬疑侦探小说的作家”。除了刻画年老的处女和年轻的女性侦探,格林在故事情节的创新也包含在图书馆的尸体、把新闻剪报当做“线索”、验尸官的请求和司法官的出场。耶鲁法学院曾经引用她的作品来论证“单单依靠旁证会对事实造成极大的破坏”这个论题。写于1878年的第一本书《莱文沃思案例》在宾夕法尼亚参议院引发了一场关于“这本书到底怎样才算是真正完全出自女性之手”的辩论。[4]
^ 1.01.11.21.3A. K. Green Dies.. Noted Author, 88. 'The Leavenworth Case' in '78 Followed by 36 Other Books. Wife of Charles Rohlfs. Wanted to Write Poetry. Wrote Detective Stories to Draw Attention to Her Verse. Changed Mystery Fiction
^Penzler, Otto. A Deadly Month. The New York Sun (New York: Ronald Weintraub). November 16, 2005. [Green] is frequently, inaccurately, described as the mother of the detective novel by virtue of having written The Leavenworth Case, which is said to be the first mystery written by an American woman. But the honor rightfully belongs to Seeley Regester [1831-1885], with her 1866 novel The Dead Letter.使用|accessdate=需要含有|url= (帮助)
^Hickman, Kathy. Sisters in Crime hit Local Library. The Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, Massachusetts: Oreste P. D'Arconte). November 25, 2006.使用|accessdate=需要含有|url= (帮助)
^Charles Rohlfs, Designer, is Dead. 纽约时报. July 1, 1936. Manufacturer, 83, Is Credited With Having Originated Mission Furniture. Began Career on Stage. Starred in Mystery Drama Taken From Novel by Wife Anna Katharine Green
^Travel. The Daily News (Batavia) (Batavia, New York: Johnson Newspaper Corporation). July 14, 2004: 8A.使用|accessdate=需要含有|url= (帮助)
扩展阅读
Maida, Patricia D (1989)的 《Mother of Detective Fiction: the life and works of Anna Katharine Green》。 由Bowling Green State University Popular 出版社出版.
Murch, Alma (1958)的《 The Development of the Detective Novel》由伦敦 P. Owen出版社出版.
Landrum, Larry (1999)的 《American Mystery and Detective Novels: a Reference Guide》 由在 Westport CT.的Greenwood 出版社出版。
外部链接
Works by Anna Katharine Green at Project at Gutenberg