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A haunted mansion in the Vermont mountains. A murdered financier and a man who seems to have vanished into thin air. A bitter feud between two women that ends in bloodshed. And a dead adventurer who apparently refuses to stay dead.
Somebody better call Pennington Wise!
This collection brings together four early twentieth-century detective novels by Carolyn Wells, featuring private investigator Pennington “Penny” Wise and his remarkable assistant, Zizi.
Wise has a knack for untangling murders that leave the police scratching their heads, while Zizi brings an unpredictable combination of cleverness, intuition, and downright peculiar behavior to their investigations. Together, they tackle mysteries involving impossible disappearances, suspicious deaths, spiritualist séances, and families with enough secrets to keep Scotland Yard busy for a year.
In this collection:
1. The Room With the Tassels (1918)
A group of well-to-do friends decides to spend its vacation in a genuinely haunted house. They rent an enormous old Vermont mansion called Black Aspens, hoping to investigate its notorious ghosts. But when the strange happenings turn deadly, their amusing little holiday becomes a murder investigation. Ghosts, séances, Ouija boards, and a locked room with a dreadful history make this one particularly interesting.
2. The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919)
A wealthy New York financier is murdered in his office, and another man seems to have disappeared under impossible circumstances. Strange clues, conflicting testimony, and a tangled web of personal secrets leave investigators wondering how someone can simply vanish from the face of the earth.
3. In the Onyx Lobby (1920)
Two wealthy women have been carrying on a ridiculous family feud for years. Then a murder in a fashionable New York apartment building turns their private quarrel into a very public scandal. A mysterious written message, suspicious visitors, and several women with secrets of their own make the investigation considerably more complicated.
4. The Come Back (1921)
An adventurous young man disappears during an expedition into the frozen Labrador wilderness and is presumed dead. But back in New York, strange messages and spiritualist revelations suggest that the dead man may still be trying to communicate with the living. Is somebody playing a particularly cruel trick, or has something genuinely supernatural occurred?
Carolyn Wells wrote dozens of detective novels during her long career, and the Pennington Wise mysteries are from a period when spiritualism, amateur detectives, and impossible crimes were all the rage.
