The Chief Legatee
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About This Book
Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs (1846-1935) wrote detective fiction and was instrumental in helping shape the genre into its current form by introducing a series detective with an amateur sidekick, as well as a young girl detective. She was one of a handful of women writing detective stories at the time.
Chapters (80)
- The Chief Legatee
- Author of
- "The Leavenworth Case," "The Woman in the Alcove," Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated in Water-Colors by Frank T. Merrill
- A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt.
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE CHIEF LEGATEE
- PART I
- A Woman of Mystery
- CHAPTER I
- A BRIDE OF FIVE HOURS
- CHAPTER II
- THE LADY IN NUMBER THREE
- CHAPTER III
- "HE KNOWS THE WORD"
- CHAPTER IV
- MR. RANSOM WAITS
- CHAPTER V
- IN CORRIDOR AND IN ROOM
- CHAPTER VI
- THE LAWYER
- CHAPTER VII
- RAIN
- CHAPTER VIII
- ELIMINATION
- "I cut them letters there fifteen years ago. Now I'm to cut 'em out."
- CHAPTER IX
- HUNTER'S INN
- PART II
- The Call of the Waterfall
- CHAPTER X
- TWO DOORS
- CHAPTER XI
- HALF-PAST ONE IN THE MORNING
- CHAPTER XII
- "GEORGIAN!"
- CHAPTER XIII
- WHERE THE MILL STREAM RUNS FIERCEST
- A slight, dark form stole from the shadows and laid a hand on the stooping man's shoulder.
- CHAPTER XIV
- A DETECTIVE'S WORK
- CHAPTER XV
- ANITRA
- CHAPTER XVI
- "LOVE!"
- CHAPTER XVII
- "I DON'T HEAR"
- PART III
- Money
- CHAPTER XVIII
- GOD'S FOREST, THEN MAN'S
- CHAPTER XIX
- IN MRS. DEO'S ROOM
- CHAPTER XX
- BETWEEN THE ELDERBERRY BUSHES
- CHAPTER XXI
- ON THE CARS
- CHAPTER XXII
- A SUSPICIOUS TEST
- CHAPTER XXIII
- A STARTLING DECISION
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON
- PART IV
- The Man of Mystery
- CHAPTER XXV
- DEATH EDDY
- "Cormorants!" escaped his lips. "They look for a feast of death, but they will be disappointed."
- CHAPTER XXVI
- HAZEN
- CHAPTER XXVII
- SHE SPEAKS
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- FIFTEEN MINUTES
- CHAPTER XXIX
- "THERE IS ONE WAY"
- CHAPTER XXX
- NOT YET
- Works by Anna Katharine Green
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