Vicky Van: A Murder Just Off Fifth Avenue
Carolyn Wells
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A man is stabbed at a supper party in a fashionable little house just off Fifth Avenue, and the hostess — young, charming, known to everyone and to nobody — walks out of the room and is not found. Wells lost most of her hearing to scarlet fever at six and turned out roughly a hundred and seventy books; she wrote detective stories to rules she codified herself, and the solution here depends on a fact hidden in plain sight from the first page. Sixty plates of New York street life and interiors by Everett Shinn and Childe Hassam, 1879 to 1925, place the supper party and the vanished hostess in the city that made them possible.
A man is stabbed at a supper party in a fashionable little house just off Fifth Avenue, and the hostess — young, charming, known to everyone and to nobody — walks out of the room and is not found. Wells lost most of her hearing to scarlet fever at six and turned out roughly a hundred and seventy ...
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Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer born in Rahway, New Jersey. Deafened by scarlet fever as a child, she published more than a hundred and seventy books - detective novels, children's stories and nonsense verse - and edited the first anthology of detective stories. Her works include The Clue, The Curved Blades, and A Nonsense Anthology.
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer born in Rahway, New Jersey. Deafened by scarlet fever as a child, she published more than a hundred and seventy books - detective novels, children's stories and nonsense verse - and edited the first anthology of detective stories. Her works include...
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