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    The Amethyst Box
    The Amethyst Box
    The Amethyst Box
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    The Amethyst Box

    Written by Anna Katharine Green

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help, they try to recover the box before the poison can be administered... (Summary by Carolin)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Anna Katharine Green

    Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American writer and one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States. Her book The Leavenworth Case, published in 1878, became a wildly successful bestseller. Green went on to write dozens of mysteries and detective novels. She died in Buffalo, New York. 

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