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She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with ralph waldo emerson during her late teens. The early chapters depict an old fashioned coroners inquest, held in the home of the deceased. The leavenworth case 1878, subtitled a lawyers story, is an american detective novel and the first novel by anna katharine green. The leavenworth case xist classics kindle edition by.
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