A Deed of Dreadful Note, Patricia Meredith
A Deed of Dreadful Note, Patricia Meredith
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A Deed of Dreadful Note

Author: Patricia Meredith

Narrator: Patricia Meredith

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2023


Synopsis

Fifteen years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, Anna Katharine Green began writing The Leavenworth Case, inspiring the creation of detectives like Sherlock, Poirot, and Wimsey, as well as almost every device and convention we now recognize as standard in detective mystery fiction.When her father's client is found murdered, Anna takes up the call to prove innocent the young girl accused of the murder. The investigation inspires many of the events, characters, and descriptions that would later be published in her debut novel.A love letter to mystery and writing itself, A Deed of Dreadful Note is an homage and reintroduction to an author who was the Agatha Christie of her time but a forgotten female today.This book is a fictionalized account of how Anna Katharine Green’s first novel may have come to be…A Deed of Dreadful Note is Book One in the Anna Katharine Green Mysteries, the only historical fiction series featuring the Mother of Detective Fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

"Patricia Meredith's best book yet!" (Quoting my Mom and posting on her behalf since she doesn't have Goodreads.)......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne

Color me impressed! I know that there are a lot of historical mysteries being published with either a mystery writer or a main character from a famous series now. I never have heard of Anna Katherine Green. To my surprise she was the first woman to have her detective novel published under her full n......more

Goodreads review by Tori

4/5 Patricia's writing style is so delightfully warm and atmospheric, and she's done it again in this murder mystery detailing the life and writing of Anna Katharine Green. The book manages to merge history and fiction with the perfect balance, exploring the origin story of a prolific writer. I am ad......more

Goodreads review by Anitha

This follows a real life author Anna Katherine Green who is an inspiration to many mystery authors. Patricia Meredith did a fantastic job in bringing her back as a character. We not only see Anna solving the mystery, but also how she started her journey as a writer. And it has one of my favourite ro......more