title: The Golden Slipper: And Other Problems for Violet Strange
author:  Anna Katharine Green 
description: Anna Katherine Green was born on 11 November 1846 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Catharine Ann Whitney and James Wilson Green, lawyer. No doubt his career had an influence on his daughter's, who took early to writing poetry and short stories. In 1866 Green graduated from Ripley Female College in Poultney, Vermont, then moved back to New York to live with her extended family. The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story was published, followed by A Strange Disappearance (1880). After the success of Leavenworth Green had the confidence to submit her The Defense of the Bride and Other Poems (1882) to publishers though it did not receive the attention her detective novels achieved.
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  The Golden Slipper
  
  
    
    
  I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER  
    
  II THE SECOND BULLET  
    
  III THE INTANGIBLE CLEW  
    
  [IV THE GROTTO SPECTRE  
    
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  ](The%20Golden%20Slipper_split_001.html#filepos174314)[VI THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS  
    
  ](The%20Golden%20Slipper_split_001.html#filepos228639)[VII THE DOCTOR, HIS
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  ](The%20Golden%20Slipper_split_002.html#filepos421243)[IX VIOLET'S OWN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Golden Slipper
  
  
  ### Anna Katharine Green
  
  
  
  
  
  THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
  
  
  And Other Problems for Violet Strange
  
  
  
  
  
  by ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
  
  
  (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PROBLEM I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "She's here! I thought she would be. She's one of the three
  
  
  young ladies you see in the right-hand box 