Collected Works of Carolyn Wells

Famous today as the creator of the reserved and scholarly detective Fleming Stone, Carolyn Wells was a prolific American writer of popular mystery novels, celebrated for their intricate plots and engaging characters. The first novel in the series, ‘The Clue’ (1909), features on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. Throughout her career, Wells produced over 170 titles, including children’s stories, detective novels, anthologies and humorous and nonsense writings. This eBook presents Wells’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wells’ life and works

Concise introductions to the major texts

64 novels, with individual contents tables

Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing

Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

Excellent formatting of the texts

The complete Patty Fairfield and Marjorie Maynard series

Famous children’s books are illustrated with their original artwork

Includes Wells’ rare poetry collections – available in no other collection

Features Wells’ seminal non-fiction work ‘The Technique of the Mystery Story’

Useful ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

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CONTENTS:

The Fleming Stone Series

The Clue (1909)

The Gold Bag (1911)

A Chain of Evidence (1912)

The Maxwell Mystery (1913)

Anybody But Anne (1914)

The White Alley (1915)

The Curved Blades (1915)

The Mark of Cain (1917)

Vicky Van (1918)

The Diamond Pin (1919)

Raspberry Jam (1920)

The Mystery of the Sycamore (1921)

The Mystery Girl (1922)

Feathers Left Around (1923)

Spooky Hollow (1923)

The Alan Ford Series

The Bride of a Moment (1916)

Faulkner’s Folly (1917)

The Pennington Wise Series

The Room with the Tassels (1918)

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919)

In the Onyx Lobby (1920)

The Come Back (1921)

The Luminous Face (1921)

The Vanishing of Betty Varian (1922)

The Affair at Flower Acres (1923)

Wheels within Wheels (1923)

The Patty Fairfield Series

All 17 Patty Fairfield novels (too many to list)

The Marjorie Maynard Series

All of the Marjorie novels

The Dorrance Family Series

The Dorrance Domain (1905)

Dorrance Doings (1906)

The Two Little Women Series

Two Little Women (1915)

Two Little Women and Treasure House (1916)

Two Little Women on a Holiday (1917)

Other Novels

Abeniki Caldwell (1902)

Eight Girls and a Dog (1902)

The Gordon Elopement (1904)

The Staying Guest (1904)

The Matrimonial Bureau (1905)

The Emily Emmins Papers (1907)

Dick and Dolly (1909)

Betty’s Happy Year (1910)

Ptomaine Street (1921)

Short Stories

Christabel’s Crystal (1905)

An Easy Errand (1910)

The Adventure of the Mona Lisa (1912)

The Adventure of the Clothes-Line (1915)

The Poetry and Nonsense Works

The Jingle Book (1899)

A Phenomenal Fauna (1902)

Children of Our To