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The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow: Collector's Great Classics - Complete Revised Original Book for Modern Readers Paperback – May 12, 2022

by Anna Katharine Green (Author)

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"You see," he quietly announced, "the case is serious. Twenty-two of you, and not one to speak the half-dozen words which would release the rest from their present embarrassing position! What remains for us to do under circumstances like these? My experience suggests but one course: to narrow down this inquiry to those—you will not find them many—who from their nearness to the place of tragedy or from some other cause equally pertinent may be looked upon as possible witnesses for the Coroner's jury. That this may be done speedily and surely, I am going to ask you, every one of you, to retake the exact place in the building which you were occupying when you heard the first alarm. I will begin with the Curator himself. Mr. Jewett, will you be so good as to return to the room, and if possible to the precise spot, you were occupying when you first learned what had occurred here?"

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May 12, 2022
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979-8821580337
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B17R9DM1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (May 12, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8821580337
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches

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"I feared a plot"

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2010

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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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kitz

A pre Christie mystery that shows why her books were such a success. The style is dated

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016

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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.

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Murder in the Museum

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016

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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.

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Not for me

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016

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I couldn't get past the first few pages. Just not for me.

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Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016

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Did not finish this book.

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Richard Moore

IF you love Christie, or Rinehart, you'll love this book too!

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2009

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.

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Paul Roberge

a transitional detective novel

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2011

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.

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M. Dowden

Not Her Best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2017

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One of the first writers in the US to start writing what we recognise as detective fiction Anna Katharine Green helped popularise this sub-genre of crime fiction and was to become influential on those who came after, and not only American writers.

This particular novel was first published in 1917 and features Green’s serial detective Gryce, who is now an octogenarian but still active in the New York Police. Ebenezer Gryce is called in when a young lady is suddenly shot with an arrow in a museum. With trying to locate where everyone in the museum was at the exact time of the killing so suspicion starts to fall on some more than others, but with the woman who accompanied the deceased to America suddenly disappearing as well, could the case be even more complex than at first sight? With two witnesses becoming quite distraught over the death could one of them be acting and hiding something?

This tale does ramble on at quite a slow place and at times certain coincidences stick out like a sore thumb, and the thoughts by our lead detective going on nothing more than conjecture seem to be way too prescient. There are psychological issues that are looked at here, but don’t really go that far, and thus seem a bit primitive compared with today’s market.

With a back story as such given at the end of this it does age this book, but even more so at times is the melodrama and drama, which can be a bit over the top and would have been more suitable for something written in the previous century. Although an okay read this does have failings and is hardly the standard of some of the other novels by this author. Admittedly not for everyone this does show how such stories have become a bit more sophisticated over the years and thus we can see a natural progression from this.

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