Reading The Leavenworth Case | Alexandria
Read The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green. Investigating America's first detective novel, The Leavenworth Case shattered Victorian expectations with a female sleuth who outsmarts male police. This groundbreaking 1878 tale pioneered forensic science, legal procedure, and psychological complexity years before Sherlock Holmes - proving that a woman writer could master crime fiction when most couldn't even vote.