Les aventures d'un policier new-yorkais, Ebenezer Cryce, quiquagénaire corpulent et sympathique. Dans cette enquête, il est secondé par Amélia Butterworthe, une vieille fille extrêmement fureteuse.

Le Crime de Gramercy Park

A housekeeper reports the disappearance of a sewing-maid from a wealthy household. She insists that the girl has been abducted. Mr Gryce and a young detective investigate. The missing young woman has a secret. But she is not the only one.

A Strange Disappearance

"Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one which has come under my direct notice. Indeed, I know of another that in some respects, at least, surpasses that in points of interest, and if you will promise not to inquire into the real names of the parties concerned, as the affair is a secret, I will relate you my experience regarding it." The speaker was Q, the rising young detective, universally acknowledged by us of the force as the most astute man for mysterious and unprecedented cases, then in the bureau, always and of course excepting Mr. Gryce; and such a statement from him could not but arouse our deepest curiosity.

"The Leavenworth case" is a crime novel written in 1878 by American writer Anna Katharine Green. This book, often referred to as a {criminal romance}, is considered to be the first crime novel written by a female writer, and to have influenced Agatha Christie to follow the path of crime-writing. This is the story of two sisters, a rich uncle found mysteriously dead in his beautiful New York mansion, and a detective answering by the strange name of Ebenezer Gryce, of the New York Metropolitan police force. He will reappear in further adventures, this time accompanied by female sleuth Amelia Butterworth.

The Leavenworth case

I had been a junior partner in the firm of Veeley, Carr & Raymond, attorneys and counsellors at law, for about a year, when one morning, in the temporary absence of both Mr. Veeley and Mr. Carr, there came into our office a young man whose whole appearance was so indicative of haste and agitation that I involuntarily rose at his approach and impetuously inquired: "What is the matter? You have no bad news to tell, I hope." "I have come to see Mr. Veeley; is he in?" "No, " I replied; "he was unexpectedly called away this morning to Washington; cannot be home before to-morrow; but if you will make your business known to me-" "To you, sir?" he repeated, turning a very cold but steady eye on mine; then, seeming to be satisfied with his scrutiny, continued, "There is no reason why I shouldn't; my business is no secret. I came to inform him that Mr. Leavenworth is dead." "Mr. Leavenworth!" I exclaimed, falling back a step. Mr. Leavenworth was an old client of our firm, to say nothing of his being the particular friend of Mr. Veeley. "Yes, murdered; shot through the head by some unknown person while sitting at his library table." "Shot! murdered!" I could scarcely believe my ears.

The Leavenworth Case

Der Titel 'Der Tag der Vergeltung' ist der Band 5 in der Buchreihe 'Historical Diamond'. Die Autorin Anna Katherine Green, geborene Anna Katharine Rohlfs, war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin von viktorianischen Kriminalromanen. Sie gilt als die 'Mutter der Detektivgeschichten' und ist die bedeutendste Vertreterin des Genres zwischen Edgar Allan Poe und Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In dieser Buchreihe werden die Juwelen bedeutender klassischer Autoren in einer qualitativ hochwertigen, aber preiswerten Buchausgabe in ungekürzter Fassung neu herausgegeben. Das Themenspektrum umfasst spannende Romane, u. a. historische Romane, Krimis, Fiktion, Abenteuer und Entdeckungsreisen.

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