The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
A mystery that opens with the shocking murder of Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy New York merchant. It introduces detective Ebenezer Gryce.
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (1846-1935), often referred to as 'the Mother of the Detective Novel', was an American author of mysteries. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Greene was the daughter of a lawyer and attended Ripley Female College in Vermont. Her first and most successful novel, The Leavenworth Case, was the landkmark for a new and exciting genre full of clues and suspense. MICHAEL SIMS is the author of Apollo's Fire, Adam's Navel and Darwin's Orchestra. For Penguin Classics he has edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (which inspired The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143106128 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143106120 |
| Title | The Leavenworth Case |
| Author | Anna Katharine Green |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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