Carolyn Wells: 226 books

This charmer geared for younger audiences will draw in even reluctant readers. Fed up with the rat race and hassle of life in the big city, four children and their doting, adventurous grandmother take up residence in an abandoned hotel. Though teamwork, perseverance, trial and error, and some good luck, the scrappy family toughs it out and makes the Dorrance Domain a cozy home.

One of the occasions when I experienced "that grand and glorious feeling" was when my law business had achieved proportions that justified my removal from my old office to new and more commodious quarters. I selected a somewhat pretentious building on Madison Avenue between Thirtieth and...

“They sound delightful. Can’t you manage to go to both?” “No, they’re too far apart; and they’re both at four o’clock, anyway. I think I’ll choose the musicale, for I’ll surely get another chance to see the pictures.” “Yes, of course you will,” agreed Nan, a little absently,...

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...

A group of men discuss the reasons for murder and one announces that he would kill one particular man because he disliked him." Then when the man turns up dead, the others are horrified that he has said something that has put the noose around his own neck, particularly when he offers no alibi....

WELCOME HOME I do think waiting for a steamer is the horridest, pokiest performance in the world! You never know when they're coming, no matter how much they sight them and signal them and wireless them!

Patty Bride is a classic selection from the celebrated Patty Fairfield series. A table of contents is included.

"The Mystery of the Sycamore" is an early type of detective story, falling somewhere between Conan Doyle's genius Sherlock Holmes and Hammett's tough-guy Sam Spade. It contains elements of the Gothic (the tale of the phantom bugler, which is used by the murderer as a cover) and the Golden...

“No,” persisted Pollard, “an impelling—a compelling motive. Why, there’s Gleason now. I can’t bear that man. Yet I scarcely know him. I’ve met him but a few times—had little or no personal conversation with him—yet I dislike him. Not detest or hate or despise—merely dislike him....

Yes, that's my bag. I left it at the lace counter. Thank you. Please give it to me. What? I must prove property? Why, don't you see it's mine? That twisty silver monogram on the side is really E. C. S. That's my name, Ella C. Saunders. I told Jim I thought the letters were too wiggly to be easily read,...