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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Bellows, William Merritt Chase and John Sloan. A woman is stabbed in the palm court of a New York hotel with a room full of witnesses, and nobody saw it happen; the only clue is a set of initials. Green published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, nine years before Sherlock Holmes, and is called the mother of the detective novel; here, late in...