The Mystery of the Sycamore - Paperback
The Mystery of the Sycamore - Paperback
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by Carolyn Wells (Author)
Political ambition, a decades old feud, romantic aspirations, an age old family legend foretelling doom. When a former governor is shot dead at the country home of an old political rival, the famed detective Fleming Stone must determine which of these was a factor in the murder. But his task is complicated by the fact that the three most likely suspects have all confessed, each of them lying to save the others. But if the murderer was not one of these three, who was it?. The fiancée of the daughter of the political rival? The personal secretary of the murdered man? Ot the mysterious bugler in the night? Facing one of his most difficult cases, will Stone be able to solve . . .The Mystery of the Sycamore
Author Biography
Carolyn Wells, June 18, 1862 March 26, 1942 was an American writer and poet. She was best known for her books of poetry and humor until around 1910 she read one of Anna Katherine Green's mysteries and took up the genre. Many of her mysteries featured the detective Fleming Stone. She was married to Hadwin Houghton, heir to the Houghton-Mifflin publishing company. She was a collector of poetry by other authors, and, upon her death, she bequeathed her collection of the works of Walt Witman to the Library of Congress.
