![]() ![]() But you have to remind yourself: It’s a trope because others copied her, not vice versa. In fact, Green called them “criminal romances” (as the first use of the genre term “detective fiction” wasn’t until 1900 in the wake of Sherlock Holmes’s popularity).Īlthough she wasn’t the first to write a mystery with a love story at its center, this, as well as many other devices she uses, make the book feel quite full of tropes. At its heart, like most mysteries, it is a romance. ![]() ![]() Naturally, the book then follows his desire to exonerate her. There he meets the beautiful Eleanore Leavenworth, who he immediately falls in love with, only to learn that most if not all of the evidence seems to point directly to her as the murderer. murdered shot through the head by some unknown person while sitting at his library table.” The story is told from the first-person point of view of a young lawyer, Everett Raymond, who had worked with Leavenworth, and is called to the house upon discovery of the body. Instead, I’ll share some more about it here, as a taster for what’s to come in the presentation. Although my presentation this month on Anna Katharine Green will be covering more than just her first book, The Leavenworth Case has enough to say about itself it could be an entire presentation unto itself. ![]()
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