Subtitled A Lawyer’s Story, this is a famous detective novel set in New York City. It concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. Green’s novel introduced the shrewd detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction.
Price: $23.95
Genre: Classic Mystery
ISBN: 978-1-59688-195-2