# The Leavenworth Case — Character guide

> Key figures in The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/narrator.md): Everett Raymond is a professional man whose legal mind and personal sympathies collide when he takes up the Leavenworth case, convinced that Eleanore is shielding someone. His growing devotion to her drives him to challe
- [Mary Leavenworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/mary_leavenworth.md): Mary Leavenworth is the beautiful, socially gifted niece whose composure under suspicion strikes observers as either innocence or extraordinary self-command. She deflects inquiry with sweetness and retreats behind notes 
- [Eleanore Leavenworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/eleanore_leavenworth.md): Eleanore Leavenworth is the quieter, more austere of the two nieces, and the one the evidence most directly incriminates. Rather than defend herself, she refuses to explain her actions, accepting suspicion with a stoicis
- [Mr. Gryce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/mr_gryce.md): Ebenezer Gryce is the methodical police detective whose quiet, almost indifferent demeanor conceals a sharp and stubborn intelligence. He tolerates the narrator's interference with dry amusement but never abandons his ow
- [Henry Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/henry_clavering.md): Henry Clavering moves through the case under assumed names, calling at the house as Mr. Robbins one night and as himself another, and his connection to Eleanore is the subject of servants' whispers. The threatening lette
- [Horatio Leavenworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/horatio_leavenworth.md): Horatio Leavenworth was a millionaire recluse who doted on his beautiful niece Mary until an anonymous letter from Henry Clavering shattered his trust in her. The letter, intercepted by his secretary, drove a wedge betwe
- [Amy Belden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/amy_belden.md): Amy Belden keeps the kind of quiet household where a stranger's knock is weighed before the door is opened, and where old loyalties outlast old scandals. Her knowledge of the family reaches back through years of service 
- [Hannah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/hannah.md): Hannah Chester is the kind of servant who sees everything and says nothing, which makes her sudden centrality to the murder inquiry both dangerous and inevitable. Her knowledge of the household's private hours places her
- [Mr. Harwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/mr_harwell.md): Trueman Harwell works in the library with the mechanical precision of a man who has trained himself to feel nothing, yet his employer's narrator finds him impossible to read and impossible to dismiss. His refusal to spea
- [Raymond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/raymond.md): A lawyer or associate involved in the legal proceedings.
- [Q](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/q.md): Q writes in a hand no one can trace and knows details that should be private, making every letter a small crisis of trust for the detectives who receive them. The correspondence arrives at precisely the moments when the 
- [Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/thomas.md): The butler in the Leavenworth household.
- [Mr. Monell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/mr_monell.md): A character who appears in connection with the investigation.
- [Mr. Fobbs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/mr_fobbs.md): A minor figure encountered during the inquiry.
- [Kate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_leavenworth_case_se/characters/kate.md): A maid or servant in the Leavenworth home.

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