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The Leavenworth Case

First published: 1878
Pages: 303

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"A Great Case"
13:06
The Coroner's Inquest
9:00
Facts and Deductions
28:00
A Clue
10:09
Expert Testimony
12:49
Side-Lights
9:43
Mary Leavenworth
12:55
Circumstantial Evidence
23:50
A Discovery
15:18
Mr. Gryce Receives New Impetus
17:26
The Summons
11:34
Eleanore
11:24
The Problem
13:16
Mr. Gryce At Home
19:21
Ways Opening
16:25
The Will of a Millionaire
7:20
The Beginning of Great Surprises
17:47
On the Stairs
11:54
In My Office
11:23
"Trueman! Trueman! Trueman!"
9:54
A Prejudice
11:16
Patch-Work
28:54
The Story of a Charming Woman
14:54
A Report Followed by Smoke
15:21
Timothy Cook
12:03
Mr. Gryce Explains Himself
18:05
Amy Belden
10:46
A Weird Experience
22:27
The Missing Witness
8:19
Burned Paper
10:21
Q
17:16
Mrs. Belden's Narrative
47:54
Unexpected Testimony
10:11
Mr. Gryce Resumes Control
27:34
Fine Work
20:58
Gathered Threads
14:30
Culmination
18:03
A Full Confession
35:35
The Outcome of a Great Crime
7:15

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About this book

Anna Katharine Green's debut became one of the great early bestsellers of American crime fiction and helped set the genre's shape. A wealthy New York merchant is found shot dead in his locked library, and suspicion falls on the household: his two orphaned nieces, the servants, and a missing secretary. The young lawyer Everett Raymond narrates as the methodical detective Ebenezer Gryce sifts testimony, ballistics, and motive toward an answer no one expects. Green, the daughter of a trial attorney, wrote the coroner's inquest and courtroom scenes so precisely that the book was reportedly used to teach law students. It appeared nearly a decade before Sherlock Holmes and left a template that lasted. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

About the author

Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American novelist often called the mother of detective fiction. Her bestselling debut, The Leavenworth Case, brought realism and legal detail to the genre, and over a long career she created recurring sleuths who influenced writers from Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie.