The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402170126 (1402170122)
ASIN: 1402170122
Publish date: 2005-11-30
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Pages no: 439
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Fiction
I'd give this nice novel 10 stars for originality if it were possible. but alas! 5 of 5 anyway! I enjoyed every word of it. particularly I liked a refinement in the language. Murder is committed by Mr Harwell who fell in love with Mary Leavenworth maniacally. He kills her uncle and afterwards her p...
It's an interesting book for a number of reasons. It was written by a woman. It was also published ten years before Sherlock Holmes and yet it's Arthur Conan Doyle we remember.
WHY: considered the first detective novel written by a woman, published several year's before Arthur Conan Doyle's first book. Very popular at the time of it's publication and praised by Wilkie Collins.
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