The Leavenworth Case
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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, widens the inquiry to less obvious suspects.The Leavenworth Case, the first detective novel written by a woman, immortalised its author Anna Katharine Green as ‘The Mother of Detective Fiction’. Admired for her careful plotting and legal accuracy, the book enjoyed enormous success both in England and America, and was widely translated. It was republished by The Detective Story Club after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, speaking at the 1928 Thanksgiving Day 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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John Curran. The Leavenworth Case
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I ‘A GREAT CASE’
CHAPTER II. THE CORONER’S INQUEST
CHAPTER III. FACTS AND DEDUCTIONS
CHAPTER IV. A CLUE
CHAPTER V. EXPERT TESTIMONY
CHAPTER VI. SIDE-LIGHTS
CHAPTER VII. MARY LEAVENWORTH
CHAPTER VIII. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER IX. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER X. MR GRYCE RECEIVES NEW IMPETUS
CHAPTER XI. THE SUMMONS
CHAPTER XII. ELEANORE
CHAPTER XIII. THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIV. MR GRYCE AT HOME
CHAPTER XV. WAYS OPENING
CHAPTER XVI. THE WILL OF A MILLIONAIRE
CHAPTER XVII. THE BEGINNING OF GREAT SURPRISES
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE STAIRS
CHAPTER XIX. IN MY OFFICE
CHAPTER XX ‘TRUEMAN! TRUEMAN! TRUEMAN!’
CHAPTER XXI. A PREJUDICE
CHAPTER XXII. PATCH-WORK
CHAPTER XXIII. THE STORY OF A CHARMING WOMAN
CHAPTER XXIV. A REPORT FOLLOWED BY SMOKE
CHAPTER XXV. TIMOTHY COOK
CHAPTER XXVI. MR GRYCE EXPLAINS HIMSELF
CHAPTER XXVII. AMY BELDEN
CHAPTER XXVIII. A WEIRD EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MISSING WITNESS
CHAPTER XXX. BURNED PAPER
CHAPTER XXXI. Q
CHAPTER XXXII. MRS BELDEN’S NARRATIVE
CHAPTER XXXIII. UNEXPECTED TESTIMONY
CHAPTER XXXIV. MR GRYCE RESUMES CONTROL
CHAPTER XXXV. FINE WORK
CHAPTER XXXVI. GATHERED THREADS
CHAPTER XXXVII. CULMINATION
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A FULL CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE OUTCOME OF A GREAT CRIME
Footnotes. Introduction
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