Mystery

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katharine Green

A wealthy New York merchant is found shot in his library, and suspicion falls on one of his two beautiful nieces. Published in 1878, nine years before Sherlock Holmes, it was one of the first detective novels written by a woman, and a huge bestseller. Agatha Christie read it as a girl and never forgot it.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 7 hr 25 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4047. In the public domain in the United States.