The Vanishing of Betty Varian
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About This Book
Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), she heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green's mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which-according to Allen J. Hubin's Crime Fiction Wells's The Clue (1909...
Chapters (20)
- THE VANISHING OF BETTY VARIAN
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I Headland Harbor
- CHAPTER II Betty Varian
- CHAPTER III The Tragedy
- CHAPTER IV The Search
- CHAPTER V The Yellow Pillow
- CHAPTER VI The Varian Pearls
- CHAPTER VII Minna Varian
- CHAPTER VIII Ransom
- CHAPTER IX Poor Martha
- CHAPTER X Pennington Wise
- CHAPTER XI Clues
- CHAPTER XII A Letter from Nowhere
- CHAPTER XIII Where is North?
- CHAPTER XIV A Green Stain
- CHAPTER XV Criminal or Victim?
- CHAPTER XVI In Greenvale
- CHAPTER XVII The Last Letter
- CHAPTER XVIII The Trap
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