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The Filigree Ball
The book centers around a complex murder mystery involving the Moore house, a historic dwelling with a dark reputation, and its inhabitants, particularly the tragic figure of Veronica Moore, who has recently been married.
"The Filigree Ball" by Anna Katharine Green is a detective novel. The book centers around a complex murder mystery involving the Moore house, a historic dwelling with a dark reputation, and its inhabitants, particularly the tragic figure of Veronica Moore, who has recently been married.
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For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been expressed in words. Though I had small reason for expecting great things of myself, I had always cherished the hope that if a big case came my way I should be found able to do something with it something more, that is, than I had seen accomplished by the police of the District of Columbia since I had had the honor of being one of their number. Therefore, when I found myself plunged, almost without my own volition, into the Jeffrey-Moore affair, I believed that the opportunity had come whereby I might distinguish myself.
It had complications, this Jeffrey-Moore affair; greater ones than the public ever knew, keen as the interest in it ran both in and out of Washington. This is why I propose to tell the story of this great tragedy from my own standpoint, even if in so doing I risk the charge of attempting to exploit my own connection with this celebrated case. In its course I encountered as many disappointments as triumphs, and brought out of the affair a heart as sore as it was satisfied; for I am a lover of women and—
But I am keeping you from the story itself.
Contents
- 01Book I the Forbidden Room
- 02I. “The Moore House? Are You Speaking of the Moore House?”
- 03II. I Enter
- 04III. I Remain
- 05IV. Signed, Veronica
- 06V. Master and Dog
- 07VI. Gossip
- 08VII. Sly Work
- 09VIII. Slyer Woes
- 10IX. Jinny
- 11X. Francis Jeffrey
- 12Book II the Law and Its Victim
- 13XI. Details
- 14XII. Thrust and Parry
- 15XIII. Chiefly Thrust
- 16XIV. “Tallman! Let Us Have Tallman!”
- 17XV. White Bow and Pink
- 18XVI. An Egotist of the First Water
- 19XVII. A Fresh Start
- 20XVIII. In the Grass
- 21Book III the House of Doom
- 22XIX. In Tampa
- 23XX. “The Colonel’s Own”
- 24XXI. The Heart of the Puzzle.
- 25XXII. A Thread in Hand
- 26XXIII. Words in the Night
- 27XXIV. Tantalizing Tactics
- 28XXV. Who Will Tell the Man Inside There
- 29XXVI. Rudge
- 30XXVII. “You Have Come! You Have Sought Me!”
About this edition
- Author
- Anna Katharine Green
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 260 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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