The Leavenworth Case

This exciting detective story, published towards the end of the last century, enjoyed an enormous success both in England and America. It seems to have been forgotten for nearly fifty years until Mr. Baldwin, speaking at a dinner of the American Society in London, remarked “An American woman, a successor of Poe, Anna K. Green, gave us ‘The Leavenworth Case', which I still think one of the best detective stories ever written.” It is a remarkably clever story, a masterpiece of its kind, and in addition to an exciting murder mystery and the subsequent tracking down of the criminal, the writing and characterisation are excellent.