When a wealthy merchant is found murdered in his home, circumstances point toward a member of the household as the killer in this bestselling tale of love, greed, sacrifice, and betrayal.
When aspiring poet Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) failed to gain recognition for her verse, she wrote her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case, published in 1878. "The mother of the detective novel," Green wrote in a variety of genres, publishing about 40 books, and was among America's first writers of detective fiction.
