The Woman in the Alcove

A man is stabbed at a New York ball, in an alcove, and the woman found beside him is engaged to the man everyone suspects — who will not defend himself. Green published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, nine years before Sherlock Holmes, and is called the mother of the detective novel; here the narrator is the accused's fiancée, and she does the detecting because nobody else will.

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E-bog: 22. juli 2026