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What if the neighbor everyone overlooks sees more than the detective in charge?
Miss Amelia Butterworth knows her quiet New York street, and she trusts her own judgment. When a shocking event at the Van Burnam house next door draws her into a crime, this wealthy, unmarried woman refuses to stand aside. The family wants to avoid scandal. Amelia wants to know what happens behind its respectable doors.
In Anna Katharine Green's That Affair Next Door, Amelia tells the story with pride, humor, and firm opinions. Veteran detective Ebenezer Gryce takes charge, but he needs her knowledge even as he questions her meddling. Their wary partnership turns small observations into clues, while good manners and a clean name may hide lives neither investigator can take at face value.
What you’ll discover
- An unlikely investigator Follow a watchful woman whose sharp judgment makes being overlooked an unexpected advantage.
- Partners with competing methods Watch Amelia and Gryce weigh each other's insights while guarding their own authority.
- Clues in ordinary things Notice how clothes, rooms, and a servant's manner can matter to a criminal investigation.
- Respectability under suspicion Look beneath polished manners into a household where a good name carries real weight.
- A proud, funny voice Enjoy Amelia's confident account, where strong opinions give the puzzle a distinctly personal edge.
Who will love it
Readers who love a classic whodunit, a witty narrator with strong opinions, and clues you can try to solve yourself, from hatpins to stopped clocks. Fans of old New York will enjoy the setting.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Neighbor Sees Something at Midnight
- An Amateur Reads the Room
- The Inquest Raises More Questions Than Answers
- Howard Van Burnam Tells Two Stories
- Small Objects Lead to a Woman in Gray
- A Theory Meets a Human Face
- A Pincushion Tests a Suspicion
- What the Story Is Really About
- How the Story Is Told
Who’s who
- Amelia ButterworthA proud, observant spinster in Gramercy Park who watches her neighbors and decides to solve the murder herself.
- Ebenezer GryceAn aging, sly detective from Police Headquarters who treats Miss Butterworth as a joke until she proves useful.
- Howard Van BurnamThe younger son of a wealthy family, married against his father's wishes, who tells stories that contradict each other.
- Franklin Van BurnamThe respectable elder brother, who hides an old secret and comes under police suspicion.
- Louise Van BurnamHoward's pretty, vain wife, who comes to New York to win over her husband's disapproving family.
- Ruth OliverA sorrowful young woman in gray who takes a position with Miss Althorpe and carries a secret she will not share.
- Ella AlthorpeA kind and wealthy young woman two weeks from her wedding, who welcomes Ruth Oliver into her house.
- Mrs. BoppertThe Van Burnams' frightened cleaning woman, who knows more than she says.
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Quell'affare della casa accanto
by Anna Katharine Green · 1897
A Gramercy Park spinster sees two strangers enter next door at midnight, but only one leaves.
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What would you do if you saw a young couple slip into an empty mansion at midnight, and only one of them came out? Miss Amelia Butterworth peeks through her curtains in Gramercy Park and finds herself in a murder case.
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A Neighbor Sees Something at Midnight
The story begins on a warm September night in 1895. Miss Butterworth hears a cab stop at the closed Van Burnam mansion and sees a young man and woman go in with a key. Ten minutes later the man hurries away alone.
The next day the house stays shuttered, and her unease grows. She talks a policeman into ringing the bell, and a nervous cleaning woman arrives with a key. Inside, the parlor holds a dead young woman crushed under a fallen cabinet.
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What is That Affair Next Door about?
It follows Miss Amelia Butterworth, a Gramercy Park spinster who sees a couple enter an empty mansion at midnight. When a woman is found dead there, she starts her own investigation alongside a New York detective.
Who is Mr. Gryce in That Affair Next Door?
Ebenezer Gryce is an elderly detective from Police Headquarters. He seems kind and fatherly but is very sharp, and he first teases Miss Butterworth and later respects her. Miss Butterworth learns that he has handled other celebrated cases, including the Leavenworth case.
Is That Affair Next Door a true story?
Anna Katharine Green set it in 1895 New York, and its Gramercy Park streets, hotels, shops, and inquest are drawn with realistic detail.
The author
Anna Katharine Green
1846–1935 · American detective novelist
Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American novelist born in Brooklyn, New York. She wrote detective fiction, including The Leavenworth Case, published in 1878, and That Affair Next Door, published in 1897. She married actor and furniture designer Charles Rohlfs in 1884. She lived in Buffalo, New York, where she died.
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