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Published in 1917, this mystery puts us in the capable hands of Detective Gryce, now an octogenarian with rheumatic twinges and moods of hating his profession. He sympathizes with anyone who evades him and his questions. He hates hounding people - and even pities the guilty.Nonetheless, the habits of a lifetime keep Gryce relentlessly on the trail.
This crime is like nothing in his experience: in a New York museum a beautiful young girl is shot through the heart with an arrow!
A highly emotional woman is found with her hand upon the arrow - and becomes incoherent for weeks. A would-be lover had been watching the girl from behind a pedestal, fearing that some plot threatened her. Twenty-two visitors were wandering around the rare coins, ancient bronzes, friezes and bas-reliefs. But nobody saw anything.
Gryce's investigation takes him deep into the past lives of reluctant witnesses and unlikely suspects, looking for connections among them. He uncovers both nobility and villainy among his cast of characters.
This isn't my favorite Green mystery, but I did enjoy it. Old Gryce is endearing, as is his ugly young assistant Sweetwater. The oddball clues are fun, and the melodramatic plot keeps the reader guessing. I'd recommend The Hasty Arrow to anyone who appreciates vintage mysteries.
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The Mystery Of The Hasty Arrow Illustrated edition by Anna Katharine Green Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Anna Katherine Green wrote "The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow" in 1917. While little known today, she influenced many later detective fiction writers. The novel is an excellent mystery story for the most part, but, like other period novels of the genre (AEW Mason's "At the Villa Rose" for example) it concludes with a lengthy confession and then an unnecessary back story. This approach may have appealed to readers of the period but might strike us as unnecessary and long-winded.
One of the interesting aspects of detective fiction is its spiral structure--by that I mean the constant revisiting of the original event (generally a murder) and its implications until a satisfactory solution is found. I suspect most modern readers feel that the plot has reached a satisfying conclusion once the murderer is unmasked. A long romantic post-mortem (as in this novel) seems superfluous. We already have a pretty good idea of what happened.
That being said, the book is worth reading even if you breeze through the last several chapters. It's a straightforward, well plotted novel. The detective, Mr. Gryce, is in his mid-eighties and sometimes uses his age to beguile others into thinking he's a doddering fool, but he still has enough of a spark of youth to go chasing potential witnesses over rough Catskill paths.
I'm so happy to see some of the great works of Anna Katherine Green; she has become one of my favorite writers, after I ran out of Christie's books to read. I found out that Agatha Christie, got into writing after reading Greens' books, who was a bestselling author who publishing about 40 books. I read she was first poet and later became a novelist to get attention to her poetry, however, she was so successful at mystery plotting, (she was an expert at the gradual unfolding of the mystery through the successful unearthing of clue after clue), that she dove right into mystery writing only.
She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing legally accurate stories, something like Law and Order in the way that the stories are accurate and sometimes based on actual cases. Her many fans besides me, include such literary luminaries as Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Agatha Christie. In fact, not just Christie, but Rinehart wrote that it was the novels of Anna Katharine Green which first inspired her to become writers of mystery fiction to.
In this book, which I just finished and was so enjoyed, you will find Victorian detective writing at its finest. The era of Sherlock Holmes, gas lights and horse drawn carriages. In this mystery we are treated to the immortal master of deduction Mr. Gryce - watch and discover how Gryce solves a murder that baffled everyone until at the end, we watch him unknot the murder using The Clue of the Hasty Arrow.
Gryce is perfect.
Did not finish this book.
I couldn't get past the first few pages. Just not for me.
The story about a young girl shot dead by an arrow at a museum. Detective Gryce tries to figure out how the killer got away when the doors to the museum were closed as soon as the girl was killed. Long, complicated story but good.
OK but really pushing the edge for vintage. Not a fun vintage read, a more DARK read that shows why Agatha Christie was such a delight when she came along with her lighter style. Women faint, and it's expected... that sort of thing.
Published in 1917, this mystery puts us in the capable hands of Detective Gryce, now an octogenarian with rheumatic twinges and moods of hating his profession. He sympathizes with anyone who evades him and his questions. He hates hounding people - and even pities the guilty.
Nonetheless, the habits of a lifetime keep Gryce relentlessly on the trail.
This crime is like nothing in his experience in a New York museum a beautiful young girl is shot through the heart with an arrow!
A highly emotional woman is found with her hand upon the arrow - and becomes incoherent for weeks. A would-be lover had been watching the girl from behind a pedestal, fearing that some plot threatened her. Twenty-two visitors were wandering around the rare coins, ancient bronzes, friezes and bas-reliefs. But nobody saw anything.
Gryce's investigation takes him deep into the past lives of reluctant witnesses and unlikely suspects, looking for connections among them. He uncovers both nobility and villainy among his cast of characters.
This isn't my favorite Green mystery, but I did enjoy it. Old Gryce is endearing, as is his ugly young assistant Sweetwater. The oddball clues are fun, and the melodramatic plot keeps the reader guessing. I'd recommend The Hasty Arrow to anyone who appreciates vintage mysteries.
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