TY - BOOK AU - Green,Anna Katharine TI - The Leavenworth Case AV - PS PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Lawyers -- United States -- Fiction KW - Inheritance and succession -- Fiction KW - Sisters -- Fiction KW - Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction KW - Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction KW - Merchants -- Crimes against -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leavenworth_Case; Release date is 2003-05-01; David Moynihan, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4047 ER -