Carolyn Wells

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. "How old are you, Patty?" asked her father, abruptly. "Fourteen, papa, -why?" "My conscience what a great girl you're getting to be. Stand up and let me look at you." Patty Fairfield, with two twists and a spring, brought herself to her feet, and stood awaiting her father's inspection. He saw a slender, graceful girl, a Southern blonde of the purest type. Her pretty golden hair would gladly have hung in curly masses, but it was only allowed to have its own sweet will around her temples and at the end of a long thick braid. Her eyes were blue, deep and twinkly, and the rest of her face was as pretty and sweet as soft girlish contours and a perfect complexion could make it. But best of all was the gentle expression and frank, good-natured smile which so often broke into mischievous dimples. It did on this occasion, and Patty laughed merrily at her father's grave consideration of her. "What is it, papa?" she asked. "Did you think I was still an infant, and were you going to buy me a new dolls' house? Or were you going to take me to the circus? I'm not a bit too old for the circus."

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Though a young detective, I am not entirely an inexperienced one, and I have several fairly successful investigations to my credit on the records of the Central Office. The Chief said to me one day: "Burroughs, if there's a mystery to be unravelled; I'd rather put it in your hands than to trust it to any other man on the force. "Because," he went on, "you go about it scientifically, and you never jump at conclusions, or accept them, until they're indubitably warranted." I declared myself duly grateful for the Chief's kind words, but I was secretly a bit chagrined. A detective's ambition is to be, considered capable of jumping at conclusions, only the conclusions must always prove to be correct ones. But though I am an earnest and painstaking worker, though my habits are methodical and systematic, and though I am indefatigably patient and persevering, I can never make those brilliant deductions from seemingly unimportant clues that Fleming Stone can. He holds that it is nothing but observation and logical inference, but to me it is little short of clairvoyance.

At the Sign of the Sphinx - a book of charades is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This is one of the later books in the popular Patty Fairfield series of novels for young readers. In this volume, Patty and her chums hole up at a lavish hotel for a weeks-long reunion party. Then the story takes a dramatic turn when a beloved family member falls ill and seeks out Patty to discuss her future. Author Bio for Wells, Carolyn Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 - March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), it was around 1910 that she heard one of Anna Katherine Green's mystery novels being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unravelling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which-according to Allen J. Hubin's Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000 (2003)-number 61 titles.

The quaint town of Deep Lake, Wisconsin is rocked to its core when millionaire Sampson Tracy is found murdered in a locked room -- with a nail driven into his skull and his corpse festooned with bizarre ritualistic items. Is the rich manOs slaying the work of a local cult or is someone closer to the Tracy household trying to make it look that way? Curl up with this classic locked-room whodunit from Carolyn Wells, author of The Clue.

The quaint town of Deep Lake, Wisconsin is rocked to its core when millionaire Sampson Tracy is found murdered in a locked room -- with a nail driven into his skull and his corpse festooned with bizarre ritualistic items. Is the rich manOs slaying the work of a local cult or is someone closer to the Tracy household trying to make it look that way? Curl up with this classic locked-room whodunit from Carolyn Wells, author of The Clue.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin Within the pages of this inspirational book, five women share compelling stories of hard-won lessons from their experiences with sex trafficking, loss of a loved one, domestic violence, infidelity, and divorce. With courageous persistence, they harnessed universal laws of life and spiritual truths to transform their lives. Although their dances with adversity are not prescriptive, they are reflective of the resilience of the human spirit-a vital commodity in today's increasingly complicated and precarious world. Start Again, Inspiration from the Sunny Side of Adversity is a collection of true stories from which you will glean inspiration and practical insight to brighten your path to self-discovery, reinvention, and greater resilience. There is no whining, blaming, or shaming within these accounts; these ladies own their stories and have used their difficulties for growth. They've turned their woes into wisdom and their sorrows into sunshine. Their stories will awaken the warrior in you So, if you need a hefty serving of encouragement to ignite your vision and passion for life, pull up a comfy chair and soak up rays of inspiration from the sunny side of adversity.

Fleming Stone Mystery #8 is a courtroom drama centering on the slaying of a Bronx businessman whose body is discovered in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park. The dead man's last words were "Cain killed me," which leads investigators to the victim's nephew Kane Landon. But was 'Cain' a Biblical reference? Or did it mean something else entirely? Landon has no credible alibi and finds himself on trial. With circumstantial evidence against him, Landon turns to expert detective Fleming Stone and his assistant Fibsy to unravel the meaning of ... The Mark of Cain.

Fleming Stone Mystery #8 is a courtroom drama centering on the slaying of a Bronx businessman whose body is discovered in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park. The dead man's last words were "Cain killed me," which leads investigators to the victim's nephew Kane Landon. But was 'Cain' a Biblical reference? Or did it mean something else entirely? Landon has no credible alibi and finds himself on trial. With circumstantial evidence against him, Landon turns to expert detective Fleming Stone and his assistant Fibsy to unravel the meaning of ... The Mark of Cain.

Sam Appleby, the former Governor of Massachusetts, pays a weekend visit to Sycamore Ridge, the Connecticut estate of his old political rival Dan Wheeler. Appleby wants Wheeler's support for his son Appleby JR who is running for Governor, but Wheeler is a hard sell. As tension escalates between the two men, a small fire erupts, causing a commotion. During the melee a gunshot rings out. When everyone returns to the study, Appleby is discovered dead in his chair, with a bullet through his heart. Wheeler seems the obvious suspect, but as the police probe further it appears more than one member of Sycamore Ridge may have had a motive for murdering the ex-Governor. With not enough clues to proceed in their investigation, the local authorities call in master sleuth Fleming Stone and his sidekick Terence McGuire - or 'Fibsy' as he's more commonly known - to solve ... The Mystery of the Sycamore.

Sam Appleby, the former Governor of Massachusetts, pays a weekend visit to Sycamore Ridge, the Connecticut estate of his old political rival Dan Wheeler. Appleby wants Wheeler's support for his son Appleby JR who is running for Governor, but Wheeler is a hard sell. As tension escalates between the two men, a small fire erupts, causing a commotion. During the melee a gunshot rings out. When everyone returns to the study, Appleby is discovered dead in his chair, with a bullet through his heart. Wheeler seems the obvious suspect, but as the police probe further it appears more than one member of Sycamore Ridge may have had a motive for murdering the ex-Governor. With not enough clues to proceed in their investigation, the local authorities call in master sleuth Fleming Stone and his sidekick Terence McGuire - or 'Fibsy' as he's more commonly known - to solve ... The Mystery of the Sycamore.

Wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell enjoys hosting parties and playing cruel jokes on her guests. If anyone complains about the humiliating mistreatment, she threatens to cut them out of her will. When Ursula's dead body is discovered in a locked-room the morning after a dinner party, suspicion initially points to the murder victim's niece Iris, the most recent recipient of one of Ursula's humiliating pranks. But there are many others competing for Ursula Pell's fortune in gems, which the eccentric widow hid somewhere and which includes a highly prized diamond pin. Who killed Ursula and how? And where is the stash of gemstones?

Wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell enjoys hosting parties and playing cruel jokes on her guests. If anyone complains about the humiliating mistreatment, she threatens to cut them out of her will. When Ursula's dead body is discovered in a locked-room the morning after a dinner party, suspicion initially points to the murder victim's niece Iris, the most recent recipient of one of Ursula's humiliating pranks. But there are many others competing for Ursula Pell's fortune in gems, which the eccentric widow hid somewhere and which includes a highly prized diamond pin. Who killed Ursula and how? And where is the stash of gemstones?

On the eve of her wedding, stunning heiress Madeleine Van Norman is found stabbed to death in the library of her palatial country mansion, killed by a single thrust from her Venetian letter opener. Suspicion falls by turns to the groom who loved another, the cousin who stands to inherit her fortune, the woman the groom loves, the murdered woman's secretary, and the former lover of the murdered woman's uncle who will inherit the mansion. A suicide note is found next to her body, but the evidence points to murder. The house had been securely locked with no sign of a break in. The local authorities are mystified. With pressure mounting, they call on the services of the famed detective Fleming Stone to resolve the case. In the end, his solution rests on a single tiny clue.

On the eve of her wedding, stunning heiress Madeleine Van Norman is found stabbed to death in the library of her palatial country mansion, killed by a single thrust from her Venetian letter opener. Suspicion falls by turns to the groom who loved another, the cousin who stands to inherit her fortune, the woman the groom loves, the murdered woman's secretary, and the former lover of the murdered woman's uncle who will inherit the mansion. A suicide note is found next to her body, but the evidence points to murder. The house had been securely locked with no sign of a break in. The local authorities are mystified. With pressure mounting, they call on the services of the famed detective Fleming Stone to resolve the case. In the end, his solution rests on a single tiny clue.

The cozy college town of Corinth, New England is the setting for this classic locked-room mystery by Carolyn Wells, author of The Clue. All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues point to a murder. Was Anita, the eponymous Mystery Girl, who is rumored to have been romantically involved with the dead man, somehow implicated in his death? Love letters between the two of them point to her potential guilt. And yet she seems incapable of such a crime. It's up to Detective Fleming Stone to decipher the story's twin puzzles; the mystery of the locked-room death and the true nature of ... The Mystery Girl.