Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Yet surprises greet Gryce at every turn-even before the second murder.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. His favorite niece, Mary, is to inherit his fortune, and all of the evidence seems to implicate her or her sister. At the inquest we meet the two ravishingly beautiful nieces who share Mr. The setting is the palatial Fifth Avenue mansion of millionaire merchant Horatio Leavenworth, found shot to death in his library. Showcasing Green's verve and style, The Leavenworth Case opens with the shocking murder of Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy New York merchant, philanthropist, and well-known member of the community. The Leavenworth Case, Green's first novel, was a runaway success. Introducing the first American series detective, Ebenezer Gryce, The Leavenworth Case was published nine years before the debut of Sherlock Holmes, and made author Anna Katharine Green an enormously popular and influential writer who changed the mystery genre forever.
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