The filigree jewelry

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The filigree jewelry (English original title The Filigree Ball ) is a Victorian crime thriller by the author Anne Katharine Green , which takes place in Washington, DC in 1898 . Along with “ The Leavenworth Case ”, it is one of the author's two works published by Econ-Verlag.

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The Moore House library in Washington is a place of mysterious death. But the young Veronika Moore is not shaken. She doesn't believe in a curse and decides to celebrate her wedding in 1898 in the dark house of all places. But the celebration ends in a debacle: when a dead person is found in the library, the wedding guests fled the house headlong. And only a short time later, Veronica Moore herself was found dead in the said room.

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As in "The Leavenworth Case", a jury meeting takes place here, in which a coroner investigates the death. This session, in which all participants have to testify, extends over many pages and chapters and illuminates the case from all possible angles. For example, police officers and servants testify, as do the gentlemen themselves, and strangers also have their say. Not only the coroner, but also the jury is allowed to ask questions. Nevertheless, questions are raised rather than clarified. Here the author shows herself in her element when she talks about details and details and interprets movements and the tiniest twitches in the face of the witnesses.

The work ends with a refined final sentence that makes the reader a co-conspirator, the reader a co-conspirator of the author. The book has a few lengths for today's standards.

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  • Anna Katherine Green: The filigree ball . Arno Books, New York 1976, ISBN 0-405-07860-9 (reprint of the Indianapolis 1903 edition).
    • German translation: The filigree jewelry . Rio-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-9520059-7-5 (reprint of the Stuttgart 1924 edition).