About "The Leavenworth Case"

Perfect! How appropriate, considering that you are studying for your European bar, and Kyle is studying for MN.

I'm not sure whether or not this is a good thing, but The Leavenworth case is often assigned reading in law school to demonstrate the effectiveness of circumstantial evidence at trial and, simultaneously, debate its reliability.

Apparently, Ms. Green is very well know for her legal accuracy.

It's like Law & Order for the Bookworm!

The plot synopsis of the movie is basically a rich old man dies by apparent suicide. The local investigator than turns up numerous plots of murder by his friends and family. There is also a monkey.

Sounds very Murder on the Orient Express, but I'm sure it'll be awesome.

Strangely enough, I can't find a quick synopsis of this book online. Once I get the book in the mail (ordered from Amazon), I will post the jacket copy here. I guess that it's appropriate that the plot of a mystery is...a mystery.

According to The University of Adelaide website:
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935): One of the first writers of detective fiction in America, distinguished by well plotted, legally accurate stories. She wrote a number of book, including:
# The Leavenworth Case (1878)
# A Strange Disappearance (1880)
# The Mill Mystery (1886)
# Agatha Webb (1899)
# The Filigree Ball (1903)
# The Woman in the Alcove (1906)
# The Mayor's Wife (1907)
# Dark Hollow (1914)
# The Golden Slipper and other problems for Violet Strange

The entire text of the novel can be found here:
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/women2/lawyrs10.html

You can download all of her other books by visiting:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/green/anna_katharine/