A collection of detective stories about the investigations of lady detective Violet Strange. Violet Strange is a young eccentric girl with noble intentions who is trying to provide her sister with a theatrical career by earning money for her by investigating various complicated cases for wealthy New York families who do not want, for whatever reason, to resort to official assistance from the police and succeed where the police reach a dead end, although she herself often doubts that she can cope with the cases proposed to her. From the translator: Even if Anna Katherine Green had not written one of the very first detective stories, The Leavenworth Case (1878), she would still take her place in detective immortality with her heroine Violet Strange. The Lady Detective made her debut in a collection of short stories called The Golden Slipper (1915). The rest of the stories in the collection will be translated if this will interest readers