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A doctor’s patient is under 24-hour supervision, but someone, somehow, is poisoning her.

An occasional series of stories from life’s murkier places, with a selection of mysteries from America.

Writer Anna Katherine Green was born in Brooklyn in 1846. She is sometimes referred to as ‘the mother of the detective novel.’ She wrote 30 detective mysteries of which the best-known is her first, The Leavenworth Case (1878). She died in 1935.

Read by Teresa Gallagher.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

Made for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk productions and first broadcast in October 2018.