It transpires that the house was locked up for the night and there are no signs of forced entry leading to the shocking conclusion that it may have been someone inside the house who did the deed. Gryce was, as I have already suggested, on intimate terms with the door-knob."Mr Gryce, though, takes something of a back seat in this story which is narrated by the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, who is called in to provide advice and assistance to Mr Leavenworth's young and beautiful nieces after Mr Leavenworth has been found shot, sitting at his desk in his study. These things he would seem to take into his confidence, make the repositories of his conclusions but as for you-you might as well be the steeple on Trinity Church, for all connection you ever appeared to have with him or his thoughts. If it rested anywhere, it was always on some insignificant object in the vicinity, some vase, inkstand, book, or button.
Gryce was a portly, comfortable personage with an eye that never pierced, that did not even rest on you. Gryce, the detective, was not the thin, wiry individual with the piercing eye you are doubtless expecting to see. The Leavenworth Case, first published in 1878, is the first in a 12 book series featuring Ebenezer Gryce, a New York detective: "And here let me say that Mr. This has been called the first American detective novel, however it seems that's probably not quite true but Anna Katherine Green may have been the first author to develop the series detective as she wrote several series featuring different detectives.
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