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Anna Katharine Green: Mother of the Detective Novel

By Joan Warthling Roberts - October 15, 2004

The Buffalo author brings respectability to crime writing as husband Charles Rohlfs plies his art to the stage and design.

The full content is available in the Fall 2004 Issue.

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