The Leavenworth Case: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Leavenworth Case is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Green, Anna Katharine (1846–1935).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Leavenworth Case
- Author credits: Green, Anna Katharine (1846–1935)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Detective and mystery stories
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Lawyers -- United States -- Fiction
- Merchants -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
- Category: Novels
- Detective Fiction
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