Agatha Webb

By Anna Katharine Green

Subjects: New england, fiction, Women, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Trials (Murder), Crimes against, New England in fiction, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Classic Literature, Women in fiction

Description: The dance was over. From the great house on the hill the guests had all departed and only the musicians remained. As they filed out through the ample doorway, on their way home, the first faint streak of early dawn became visible in the east. One of them, a lank, plain-featured young man of ungainly aspect but penetrating eye, called the attention of the others to it.