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The Leavenworth Case (The Detective Club)
Anna K. Green
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Description for The Leavenworth Case (The Detective Club)
Hardcover. Series: The Detective Club. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 126. Weight in Grams: 270.
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his mansion library, suspicion falls on his nieces, Mary and Eleanore, who stand to inherit his vast fortune. Their lawyer, Everett Raymond, infatuated with one of the sisters, is determined that the official investigator, detective Ebenezer Gryce, ... Read more
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his mansion library, suspicion falls on his nieces, Mary and Eleanore, who stand to inherit his vast fortune. Their lawyer, Everett Raymond, infatuated with one of the sisters, is determined that the official investigator, detective Ebenezer Gryce, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Collins Crime Club
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Detective Club
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008137595
SKU
V9780008137595
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99-44
About Anna K. Green
Anna K. Green (1846-1935) was born in Brooklyn, New York and was often referred to as `The Mother of Detective Fiction' after the publication of The Leavenworth Case, her first and most successful novel. The daughter of a lawyer, Green attended Ripley Female College in Vermont. Her work inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman ... Read more
Reviews for The Leavenworth Case (The Detective Club)
`Green (1846-1935), whose smooth prose remains fresh, makes Gryce an interesting enough character to leave fans of traditional whodunits eager to see more of the detective in reissues of his further exploits.' Publishers Weekly `A well plotted whodunit, and a fascinating introduction to Ebenezer Gryce, ... Read more