The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

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Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. What differentiates it from British equivalents is its snappy pacing, even if Green’s investigator seems slower-witted than his readers.' - Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday ()

'(I)t also conforms to the demands of Victorian popular fiction, complete with over-ripe exclamations, red herrings, sinister strangers, lost keys and torn-up letters.

'(I)n everything but style one of the best novels of crime and detection.' - The Times ().

'There is nothing convincing about The Leavenworth Case, and the suspected but innocent persons are not very interesting but there is a good deal of ingenuity in the plot, and, as the law proceedings introduced are American law proceedings, we do not know whether the author has avoided the perils that environ lady novelists - and, indeed, gentlemen novelists also - who meddle with criminal procedure.' - The Spectator.

How many of Poe's marvellous tales could be put into this volume ! Still, The Leavenworth Case is a meritorious effort.' - The Spectator

'Compression, too, might have been applied, with much benefit.

(.) Green (1846-1935), whose smooth prose remains fresh, makes Gryce an interesting enough character to leave fans of traditional whodunits eager to see more of the detective in reissues of his further exploits.' - Publishers Weekly

'(T)his atmospheric and suspenseful mystery well deserves a modern audience.

The Penguin Classics edition has an Introduction by Michael Simsī : very good in parts a bit of a mess as a mystery.

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