The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange

I have always loved Anna Katharine Green's mysteries, and I'm happy to report that I loved this one just as much as her others. This is a collection of loosely connected short stories (usually Violet herself is the only connection) and has some elements of horror in it also (especially the old house with the sealed up secret passage, and the cave by the sea). Violet is a very interesting and unusual sleuth, a gentle society girl who secretly moonlights as a professional detective.

Content: a couple minor swears; some death, murder, and mayhem