↑女流作家シーリー・リジェスターが先という異説あり。 Penzler, Otto (The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection) "The honor of first mystery written by an American woman belongs to Seeley Regester [1831-1885], with her 1866 novel The Dead Letter."
↑The Ronald Weintraub. "Green is frequently, inaccurately, described as the mother of the detective novel by virtue of having written The Leavenworth Case." (New York Sun. November 16, 2005)