Lost Man's Lane. A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1898 First edition of the second book in the Amelia Butterworth series, preceded by That Affair Next Door (1897) and followed by The Circular Study (1900). The present work is also numbered as the ninth entry in the groundbreaking Ebeneezer Gryce series, which was one of the first detective novel series ever published. Publisher's yellow wrappers titled in black. Ads printed on back cover and insides of wrappers. . Octavo. Wrapper chipped at head and foot of spine. Slightly loose binding. Pages clean throughout with exception of small stains on final five leaves. Past owner's ink inscription on front cover. A very good copy. Anna Katharine Green, later Rohlfs (1846 – 1935) was a poet and novelist best known for The Leavenworth Case (1878), which went on to inspire the work of Agatha Christie. The Leavenworth Case predated Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by nearly a decade, and became the first novel in the Ebeneezer Gryce series. Green used her own interest in and research of the law to fill her stories with accurate legal proceedings and realistic procedural details. (Inventory #: 17876)