The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
"The Leavenworth Case" by Anna Katharine Green is a detective novel published in 1878. When wealthy merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his Manhattan mansion's library, detective Ebenezer Gryce and lawyer Everett Raymond investigate a locked-room mystery. No one could have escaped before the body was discovered. Leavenworth's two orphaned nieces, a maid, and a mysterious gentleman all become suspects in this groundbreaking American detective story that influenced Agatha Christie
and helped establish conventions still used in mystery fiction today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Leavenworth Case |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leavenworth_Case |
| Credits | David Moynihan, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject | Lawyers -- United States -- Fiction |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sisters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Subject | Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction |
| Subject | Merchants -- Crimes against -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4047 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2003 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jul 31, 2022 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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