The Diamond Pin - Wells, Carolyn
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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?…mehr

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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?
Autorenporträt
Carolyn Wells (1862 - 1942) was an American writer and poet. 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 IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000 (2003)-number 61 titles. Wells's The Clue (1909) is on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. She was also the first to conduct a (brief, in this case) annual series devoted to the best short crime fiction of the previous year in the U.S., beginning with The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931) (though others had begun a similar British series in 1929).