The Bronze Hand

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The Bronze Hand, by Anna Katharine Green, is a quick-paced and really short novella – reading it won’t take longer than an hour, not even for those who prefer taking their time to enjoy such excellent writing.

The story is short, but written by a true master of mystery – it is not surprising that Conan Doyle himself turned to the works of Anna Katherine Green for inspiration so often. The setting for the plot is Baltimore, the time is Lincoln’s presidential election. A man falls in love with a lady who lives in the apartment under his. One day, he witnesses a man leaving the lady’s apartment running and then he hears the lady crying, so he tries to comfort her and offers to help her. The lady confesses that one of her rings has been stolen and she is afraid that the stolen ring ended up on a bronze hand in a doctor’s office. The protagonist agrees to check the bronze hand and that is where the mystery story really begins. The path that leads to the bronze hand is full of dangers, but our gentleman goes on to find the ring nevertheless.

The Bronze Hand is certainly an outstanding example of the author’s mystery weaving and character building genius, but it is not her most famous work. Known as one of the novelists who created the genre of mystery and detective fiction, Anna Katharine Green is most famous for her novel entitled The Leavenworth Case, an instant bestseller and the first book in the line of more than 40 other writings. Green’s work is appreciated not only for masterful story-telling, but also for legal accuracy – Green was known to carry out detailed research before putting anything down to paper, and this attention to detail, paired with unique talent, gave us some of the best detective stories in American literature.
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