The Diamond Pin - Paperback
The Diamond Pin - Paperback
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by Carolyn Wells (Author)
Ursula Pell was both wealthy and eccentric, being perhaps too fond of playing elaborate jokes on her long suffering niece and nephew. Therefore, when she was found brutally murdered in her locked study, the motive was only too obvious, the hoard of gems worth millions left to her by her late husband and which the widow Pell had hidden in a secret location. With the inheritance of the niece seemingly another one of her cruel jokes, and all the clues to her murder pointing to the nephew, Ursula Pell might well have the last laugh, unless Fleming Stone, the famous detective, can prove the innocence of the nephew and the true value of ... The Diamond Pin!
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 Whitman to the Library of Congress.
