The Leavenworth Case & Other Detective Novels - 22 Thrillers in One Edition

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Leavenworth Case & Other Detective Novels - 22 Thrillers in One Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. In addition to creating elderly spinster and young female sleuths, Green's innovative plot devices included dead bodies in libraries, newspaper clippings as "clews", the coroner's inquest, and expert witnesses.Table of Contents:The Leavenworth CaseA Strange DisappearanceX Y Z: A Detective StoryHand and RingThe Mill MysteryThe Forsaken InnCynthia Wakeham's MoneyAgatha WebbOne of My SonsThe Filigree BallThe Millionaire BabyThe Chief Legatee'The Woman in the AlcoveThe Mayor's WifeThe House of the Whispering PinesThree Thousand DollarsInitials OnlyDark HollowThe Mystery of the Hasty ArrowThat Affair Next DoorLost Man's LaneThe Circular Study