The Leavenworth Case

The Leavenworth Case
Author Anna Katharine Green
Country United States
Language English
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
1878
Media type Print (hardcover) (475 p.)

The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The popular[1] novel introduced the detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction.[2]

Adaptations

Green adapted the novel into a play first performed in 1891.[3][4] A later revival of the play starred Green's husband Charles Rohlfs.[5][6]

The story was filmed in movies of the same name in 1923 and 1936.

References

  1. (14 February 1924). "The Leavenworth Case" Read By Millions Here, Evening Independent
  2. Christie, Agatha (1977). An Autobiography. Dodd, Mead. p. 198.
  3. (16 September 1891). "The Leavenworth Case", San Francisco Call
  4. (18 September 1891). Music and Drama, Boston Evening Transcript
  5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 9, p. 257 (1907)
  6. (22 January 1893). Written for Her Husband, Brooklyn Daily Eagle]], p. 5


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