Cover of That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green

That Affair Next Door

by Anna Katharine Green

421 pages~7 hrs

Some secrets are too big to stay on their side of the fence.

Sharp-eyed spinster Amelia Butterworth sees more than she should from her Gramercy Park window, plunging her into a high-stakes murder investigation that baffles even the city's finest detectives. In this pioneering classic, a woman’s keen observation proves to be the most dangerous weapon against a killer hiding within the shadows of New York high society.

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