Woman in the Alcove

“The Woman in the Alcove” is a 1906 detective novel by American novelist and poet Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935). Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the “mother” of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots. The Second book in Green''s detective series featuring Caleb Sweetwater, "The Woman in the Alcove" is a riveting tale of mys...