The House Of The Whispering Pines
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The lie, or rather the suggestion of a lie, flushed my face. I was conscious of this, but it did not distress me. I was panting for relief. I could not rest till I knew the scenery of the doubt in this man’s mind. If these words, or any words I could use, would serve to surprise his secret, then welcome the lie or suggestion of a lie. “It was a brute’s act,” I went on, bungling with my sentences in anxiety to see if my conclusions fitted in with his own. “Who was the brute? Do you know, Dr. Perry?”
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Carmel Cumberland at seventeen is of such rare beauty that Elwood Ranelagh, upon seeing her, falls directly out of like with his fiancé, her older sister Adelaide, and madly in like with Carmel.
His selfish attempt to marry Carmel in place of Adelaide indirectly leads to Adelaide’s murder.
The scene of the crime is Ranelagh’s clubhouse, The Whispering Pines, just after he, its president, has locked it up for the winter. No one should have been there that snowy winter night, but several people were, either having secret meetings or wandering about in the dark. The police struggle to figure it out, as they lay a murder charge first against Ranelagh, and then Arthur Cumberland, the dissipated brother of Carmel and Adelaide.
So perplexing is the case that the local authorities call in an ace detective from the New York City police force. Sweetwaters with his weak chin and protruding nose impresses no one, until he starts uncovering disturbing new evidence.
Anna Katherine Green was the daughter of a prominent examination lawyer, and as a child she regularly listened to him discussing cases with his friends – fellow lawyers, judges and police chiefs. When she later became a best selling novelist, Green was momentously admired for her accurate presentation of the law, forensics and police procedure.
In The House of the Whispering Pines, published in 1910, Green does a masterful job of portraying tough interrogations. Her inquest and examination scenes are rich in drama and suspense.
Green is credited with many original contributions to the genre of detective fiction, including the invention of the detective series.
I establish this book painstakingly enjoyable. There’s nothing reasonably like a excellent vintage mystery, with characters dashing about in one-horse sleighs through the blinding snow, their emotions in turmoil.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5