Carolyn Wells: 226 books

Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was smiling down at her, and her pony, Dixie, was jingling his bells and pawing at the snow and ice in the driveway below. It was the first trial of the pretty new cutter, and the joyous excitement of the occasion...

A Manhattan lawyer turns to master detective Fleming Stone to prove his beautiful neighbor innocent of murder in this classic locked-room mystery A respectable young attorney in New York City, Otis Landon has barely settled into his new living quarters when an incident occurs in a neighboring...

Tale of a pair of twins, written for youngsters ages five through ten.

A Ticket to Europe Crossing the Atlantic "In England—Now!" Mayfair in the Fair Month of May A Hostess at Home The Light on Burns's Brow Certain Social Uncertainties A Sentimental Journey All in a Garden Fair "I Went and Ranged about to Many Churches" Piccadilly Circus and its Environs The Game of Going On A French Week-End

Eccentric millionaire David Van Wyck has decided to pledge all his money away, leaving his wife Anne nothing but her jewelry to survive on. When David sees Anne flirting with an old high school friend during a weekend party at his mansion, Buttonwood Terrace, he decides to include Anne’s gems in...

Corinth is a small, New England college town. The biggest concern is the recent selection of a new president of the university and his upcoming nuptials. With the exception of a few grumblings of the selection process, everything is going fine. That is until a strange new woman comes in to town. Who...

"Hard on the corpse, then, too. Here's a really lovely one!" "Yes, that's a ghost mask, and beautifully ornamented. That's to charm the dead man back to earth again." "Does he come?" "They say he does, and brings presents to his family. Now, here's a skull mask. This is Toltec, and is used to denote...

As the character of a woman may be accurately deduced from her handkerchief, so a man's mental status is evident from the way he opens his mail. Curtis Keefe, engaged in this daily performance, slit the envelopes neatly and laid the letters down in three piles. These divisions represented matters...