Early Female Detective Novel 'The Amethyst Box's Is Free eBook Today

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green is today’s Free eBook of the Day.

American author Anna Katharine Green, who wrote in the U.S. in the early 1900s, is credited as being the first female author to write detective fiction. Here is an excerpt from the book: “Gentle eyes they were, made for appeal, and eloquent with a subdued heart language. But they were held in check by an infinite discretion. Never have I caught them quite off their guard, and to-night they were wholly unreadable.