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    Vicky Van
    Vicky Van
    Vicky Van
    Ebook320 pages3 hours

    Vicky Van

    By Carolyn Wells

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateDec 1, 2003
    Vicky Van
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    Carolyn Wells

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet, librarian, and mystery writer. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Wells began her career as a children’s author with such works as At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), The Jingle Book (1899), and The Story of Betty (1899). After reading a mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green, Wells began focusing her efforts on the genre and found success with her popular Detective Fleming Stone stories. The Clue (1909), her most critically acclaimed work, cemented her reputation as a leading mystery writer of the early twentieth century. In 1918, Wells married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing fortune, and remained throughout her life an avid collector of rare and important poetry volumes.

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    • 4/5
      While attending a party of the society hostess Victoria Van Allen (Vicky Van), a man is killed. But Vicky Van disappears before the police arrive, and an eye witness account places her as guilty. Chester Calhoun a frequent guest of Vicky Van's befriends the dead man's wife, while also helping Vicky. The sisters of the dead man employ Fleming Stone to trace Vicky Van.
      An enjoyable and satisfying mystery

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