The Diamond Pin

by Carolyn Wells

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500730765
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2014
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

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 Whitman to the Library of Congress.