Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories by Anna Katharine Green
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1. Room 3 - Miss Demarest is sure that she and her mother had stayed at the Inn, but why was her mother's body found in the woods and why.
2. Midnight in Beauchamp Row - Mrs Letty Chivers is left alone with the Company's money when she has an unwelcome visitor
3. The Ruby and the Caldron - While at the Evergreens' ball, a Senator's wife loses her ruby. Evidence all seems to point to one person but the police have one hour to find the ruby, and without any scandal attached to the event.
4. The Little Steel Coils (aka A Difficult Problem) - Lucy Holmes receives the death notice of her husband before he has died. She consults with a detective to discover the why and the who. Not really much of a problem.
5. The Staircase at Heart's Delight - 1840 As told by Mr Gryce. A number of well-known and wealthy men have been discovered drowned, presumed as suicides. Gryce believes not and waits for a clue to help his investigation.
6. The Amethyst Box - At the wedding party of Gilbertine Murray and Mrs Sinclair, being held in the Armstrongs' home, an amethyst box containing a vial of deadly poison goes missing. Will its use be put to act of murder or suicide.
7. The Grey Lady - (aka The Gray Madam) - Who is the female walking through their apartment - real or a ghost, and why.
8. The Thief - what is the result when a valuable coin disappears at a dinner party.
9. The House in The Mist - A man stumbles across a house in the mist. To realise that it is only the heirs of Anthony Westonhaugh can stay to hear the reading of the will in the room, and only if they have arrived on time.
An enjoyable set of short stories.


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