Anna Katharine Green (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
The Ebenezer Gryce series, 1878-1917; the Caleb Sweetwater series, 1899-1910.
Principal Series Characters
Ebenezer Gryce, a detective working for the New York police force, was introduced in the author’s first novel, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer’s Story (1878), in which his persistent and ingenious reasoning increasingly project him into a central position. Gryce is first described as middle-aged, stolid, and portly; toward the end of his career he is depicted variously as about eighty or eighty-five years old. Gryce’s methods...
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