The Leavenworth Case
It is a remarkably clever story, a masterpiece of its kind, and in addition to an exciting murder mystery and the subsequent tracking down of the criminal, the writing and characterisation are excellent. This exciting detective story, published towards the end of the last century, enjoyed an...
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It is a remarkably clever story, a masterpiece of its kind, and in addition to an exciting murder mystery and the subsequent tracking down of the criminal, the writing and characterisation are excellent.
This exciting detective story, published towards the end of the last century, enjoyed an enormous success both in England and America. It seems to have been forgotten for nearly fifty years until Mr. Baldwin, speaking at a dinner of the American Society in London, remarked “An American woman, a successor of Poe, Anna K. Green, gave us ‘The Leavenworth Case’, which I still think one of the best detective stories ever written.”
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780008137595 (0008137595)
Publish date: 2016-10-19
Publisher: Collins Crime Club
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Fiction
Series: Ebenezer Gryce (#1)
The Leavenworth Case has many of the hallmarks of a modern mystery novel (and having just read The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen I was surprised by similarities of the initial crime). There's the dramatic murder, the inquest, the evidence leading the lesser detectives and reader down the...
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