The Leavenworth Case

Download or read book The Leavenworth Case written by Anna Katharine Green and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1878 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone shoots Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy retired merchant, through the head in his library late one night, the evidence at the inquest indicates that no one could have left the victim's locked Manhattan mansion before the discovery of the body the next morning. Suspicion thus falls on members of the household, specifically the dead man's nieces, Mary and Eleanore, only one of whom stands to benefit from their uncle's death. Everett Raymond, a junior partner in a New York law firm that had Leavenworth as a client, teams with unassuming official investigator Ebenezer Gryce to seek the truth.