![]() Brought up as sisters yet not treated equally. The girls seem to be on friendly yet not intimate terms. He seemed to love them both yet, on the grounds that one of the was more attractive than the other, he left all his money to Mary & Eleonore could expect very little. Incredibly wealthy, he had given a home to his nieces after they were orphaned. Leavenworth was unmarried but he lived with two nieces, Mary & Eleonore (they're cousins, not sisters) & it soon becomes obvious that one if not both of them had a motive to kill him. The house also seems secure so the obvious inference is that one of the family or servants is responsible. The room was locked & the key is missing but the weapon seems to have been his own pistol, found back in its usual place in his room. He's found shot in the head one morning in the library of his mansion on Fifth Avenue. ![]() Set in New York, The Leavenworth Case is the story of the murder of wealthy Horatio Leavenworth. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first women to write detective stories & this book with a series detective was published nearly ten years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began publishing his Sherlock Holmes stories. ![]()
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