{"name":"The Leavenworth Case","short_name":"The Leavenworth Case","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The popular[1] novel introduced the 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.","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/1441607/the-leavenworth-case_300x300.jpg","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}