The novel seems to have accrued generally positive reviews. It was popular both in America and in Europe, and according to one critic, it was popular among men and women of many age brackets. The Leavenworth Case was an immediate bestseller, making Green famous. As the story progresses, Leavenworth's orphaned nieces Mary and Eleanore, Hannah the maid, and a mysterious gentleman who appears on the scene all factor into the investigation. When investigator Ebenezer Gryce and lawyer Everett Raymond look into the case, it is revealed that no one could have left the Manhattan Mansion before the body was discovered the next day. The novel begins when a wealthy retired merchant named Horatio Leavenworth is shot and killed in his library. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction. The popular novel introduced the detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green.
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