I recently finished a book from 1877 called The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green, one of the first detective novels ever written and by a lady. It takes place in New York during The Gilded Age and begins as a man of high society is found murdered in his library on Fifth Avenue. In what I can only assume was an accurate portrayal of the time, the…
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