Fleming Stone, the Wells detective who appears most often in her abundant output, is the sleuth here. Like many of Wells' books he shows up only in the final third of the story. {...} There is the usual Wellsian haunted mansion with a legend attached to it. A murder was committed in the past and the sound of a harp emanates from a mausoleum situated near a bog on the rear of the estate. If anyone hears the harp playing it is supposed to be an omen of violent death to come. The harps plays, of course, and Anne Vincent, sister of Homer Vincent a reclusive eccentric inventor, is found stabbed in her locked bedroom.
The book is discussed in further detail in an article entitled "The Carolyn Wells Technique" at the blog Pretty Sinister Books. Click on the link below.
http://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2011/12/carolyn-wells-technique-or-how-i.html
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