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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1907
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • The Emily Emmins Papers

    It has always seemed to me a pity that nearly all of the people one meets walking in New York are going somewhere. I mean they have some definite destination. Thus they lose the rare delight, that all too little known pleasure, of a desultory stroll ...

  • The Eternal Feminine

    Carolyn Wells was an American author and poet. Wells wrote well over 100 books of children's and detective fiction. In addition to the incredible tales collected in the Eternal Feminine, this edition includes a table of contents....

  • Deep Lake Mystery

    Deep Lake, in Wisconsin, had a curious and sinister charm. By day it was a charming resort for summer visitors, but by night its character took on sinister depth like the swirl of its own waters. The murder of Sampson Tracy was purely the strangest o...

  • Sherlock Holmes And the Adventure of the Clothes-line

    Although immortalized by his creation of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed a long and varied literary career, ranging from the deductions of the Great Detective through the historical romances of 'Brigadier Gerard' and 'Th...

  • Marjorie At Seacote

    Carolyn Wells (1869-1942) was an American author of more than 170 mysteries and children's books. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she became a prolific writer for pulp magazines. Her books include The Gold Bag, The Chain of Evidence, The Man Who Fell Thr...

  • Patty Fairfield

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of ...

  • Marjorie's Maytime

    Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories...

  • Patty's Fortune

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre....

  • Patty's Friends

    Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories...



  • Patty's Pleasure Trip

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. From 1910 onward, she concentrated on mysteries, most famously the Fleming Stone Detective Stories...

  • Patty In The City

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre....

  • Marjorie's Vacation

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She married Hadwin Houghton heir to the Houghton Mifflin publishing company. Her first job was as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Wells wrote more than 170 books. The Marjorie...

  • Idle Idyls

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • The Story of Betty

    This edition has been proof an corrected from the original hard cover edition.***an excerpt from the beginning of the:CHAPTER IAN IMP OF WICKEDNESS IT was seven o'clock on a shining spring morning, and Warren Street was receiving its daily bath. All ...

  • The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

    Madison Avenue attorney Tom Brice is working late one night when he overhears an argument raging in the adjoining office suite belonging to the mysterious recluse Amos Gately. A gunshot rings out. Brice panics and flees but his conscience gets the be...

  • The Clue

    On the eve of her wedding, stunning heiress Madeleine Van Norman is found stabbed to death in the library of her palatial country mansion, killed by a single thrust from her Venetian letter opener. Suspicion falls by turns to the groom who loved anot...

  • The Vanishing of Betty Varian

    Headland House, so named because it was situated on a narrow headland overlooking the scenic Maine village of Headland Harbor, was a picturesque place to spend a summer holiday. The village was something of an artist’s colony, and the house itself,...

  • The Chain of Evidence

    A man is found murdered in a locked Manhattan apartment, the only other inhabitants of which were his niece and a servant. The niece, under suspicion, will be indicted unless Otis Landon, a young lawyer from the apartment across the hall can discover...

  • The Mystery Girl

    The cozy college town of Corinth, New England is the setting for this classic locked-room mystery by Carolyn Wells, author of The Clue.All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president ...



  • The White Alley

    Guests gather for the weekend at White Birches, the upper New York mansion of millionaire scion Justin Arnold. Festivities are cut short when the host inexplicably goes missing, presumed to be hiding or unwell somewhere within the grounds of his heav...

  • Anybody But Anne

    Eccentric millionaire David Van Wyck has decided to pledge all his money away, leaving his wife Anne nothing but her jewelry to survive on. When David sees Anne flirting with an old high school friend during a weekend party at his mansion, Buttonwood...

  • The Bride of a Moment

    A lovely June wedding, a beautiful young bride, a church crowded with family and friends, and moments after the vows are said the bride lying dead, struck down by an unknown assassin. Death comes to the town of Bascombe Fells and threatens to tear it...

  • The Curved Blades

    When wealthy heiress Lucy Carrington is found murdered in the bedroom of her Long Island estate, suspects abound: the rich woman’s pretty niece, the social secretary, the cousin who managed her finances, the suspicious maid, a mysterious “count...

  • Faulkner's Folly

    The lights go out in the studio of wealthy artist Eric Stannard. When they come on a moment later, the artist is dead, his heart pierced by an etching needle. But who is the murderer? The artist's wife, jealous of her husband's young model? The model...

  • The Mystery of the Sycamore

    A Fleming Stone Detective Story! A cry of “Fire!”, a murder, and the voluntary confession of three people to the crime. Such is the crux of Author Carolyn Wells’ gripping story of love and mystery. Once again, the reliable Fleming Stone ...

  • The Dorrance Domain

    This charmer geared for younger audiences will draw in even reluctant readers. Fed up with the rat race and hassle of life in the big city, four children and their doting, adventurous grandmother take up residence in an abandoned hotel. Though teamwo...

  • The Technique of the Mystery Story

    Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie? Do you ever yearn to be a good writer of mysteries? Carolyn Wells was a prolific author of mystery novels. In this detailed book, she t...

  • Children of Our Town

    A morning full of happiness any boy may find By sailing boats upon the lake, if he is so inclined; The wind it drives them out to sea, he pulls them back, and then They jerk and struggle to be free -- away they go again! They wibble-wobble as they sa...

  • In the Onyx Lobby

    "Well, by the Great Catamaran! I think it's the most footle business I ever heard of! A regulation, clinker-built, angle-iron, sunk-hinge family feud, carried on by two women! Women! conducting a feud! They might as well conduct a bakery!"...



  • A Nonsense Anthology

    On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country, neglected by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn within its borders. It is a field w...

  • Patty and Azalea

    "Oh, Little Billee Come quick, for goodness' sake The baby's choking " Patty was in the sun parlour, her arms full of a fluttering bundle of lace and linen, and her blue eyes wide with dismay at her small daughter's facial contortions. "Only with l...

  • A Phenomenal Fauna

    The Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird; At sunrise often may his voice be heard As jauntily he wends his homeward way, And trills a fresh and merry roundelay. And some old, wise philosopher has said: Rise with a lark, and with a lark to bed....

  • An Alice Alphabet

    An Alice Alphabet introduces the letters A to Z in rhymes, featuring characters from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written by American author and poet Carolyn Wells; and illustrated by Sir John Tenniel British illustrator, graphic humorist and...

  • The Jingle Book

    The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content....

  • The Diamond Pin

    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-ro...

  • The Luminous Face

    A group of men discuss the reasons for murder and one announces that he would kill one particular man because he disliked him." Then when the man turns up dead, the others are horrified that he has said something that has put the noose around his...

  • The Mark of Cain

    Fleming Stone Mystery #8 is a courtroom drama centering on the slaying of a Bronx businessman whose body is discovered in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park. The dead man’s last words were “Cain killed me,” which leads investigators to the v...

  • Betty's Happy Year

    "What a gorgeous day for a sleigh-ride Did you ever see such sunny, twinkling snow, and such crisp, crackly air? It fairly snaps off as you breathe it " Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was sm...

  • The Staying Guest

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • Carolyn Wells Mystery novel collection II

    Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 " March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942. In this book: The ...

  • The Room with the Tassels

    A group of bored rich New Yorkers obsessed with the supernatural decide to spend a month in Black Aspens, a supposedly haunted mansion deep in Vermont’s Green Mountains. A bizarre murder is rumored to have occurred there in an infamous room with ta...

  • The Book of Humorous Verse

    Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said; The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist...

  • A Parody Anthology

  • Mother Goose's Menagerie

    'Mother Goose's Menagerie' was written by Carolyn Wells, and contains the beautiful colour illustrations of Peter Newell. The book encompasses favourite tales such as 'Five Little Pigs', 'Mother Hubbard's Dog', 'Mary's Lamb' 'The Three Bears' and 'Th...

  • Patty-Bride

    Patty-Bride by Carolyn Wells has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for bo...

  • A Satire Anthology

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • The Maxwell Mystery

    Guests gather at Maxwell Chimneys, the stately home of Alexander Maxwell, for a weekend of picnics and charades. During a dance party, Alexander’s nephew Philip Maxwell is murdered. The murder weapon is quickly located in the hand of an unconscious...

  • The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady

    This book is the author's description of a fantasy land inhabited by lovers.Over the hills and far away lies Arcady, the Mecca of all Lovers, and therefore the place where Journeys End. Situated on a large tract of enchanted ground, in the Country of...

  • Patty's Motor Car



  • Dick and Dolly

    Dick and Dolly is the story of nine-year old orphan twins who have to move from one aunt's home to live with some other aunt in Connecticut. The twins are rambunctious, curious children, who are given to flights of fancy. In one case, they become con...

  • British Mysteries

    Society sleuth Fleming Stone is an expert at solving the most baffling of locked-room mysteries. The young detective and his associate Fibsy assist authorities in unsolved homicides on the Upper East Side. British Mysteries " The Fleming Stone Coll...

  • Marjorie In Command

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  • Prillilgirl

    A popular playwright is found stabbed with his own pen, made from a medieval dagger. Unconscious on the floor of a telephone booth lies Mrs. Guy Thorndike, wife of a prominent actor. On the handle of the weapon, the door of the booth, and the cover o...

  • Two Little Women and Treasure House

    This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we believe...

  • Murder in the Bookshop

    Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells’ Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murde...

  • Mystery Thriller

    An American author 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), around 191...

  • Eight Girls and a Dog

    Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet who published numerous novels and collections of poetry, her total output numbering over 170 books. During the first ten years of her writing career she concentrated on poetry, humourous works and chl...

  • The Come Back

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    American poet and writer Carolyn Wells penned a series of mystery novels that are sure to please fans of Agatha Christie and others from the classic era of the genre. In the page-turner The Come Back, supernatural elements ratchet up the psychologica...

  • The Gold Bag

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    When millionaire Joseph Crawford  is slain in the study of his New Jersey home the only physical evidence the police have to go on is a small gold bag left at the crime scene. Suspicion falls on the dead man’s niece, Florence, who admits to ha...

  • Marjorie's Busy Days

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    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of ...

  • Marjorie's New Friend

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    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of ...

  • Patty At Home

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    Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...

  • Patty Blossom

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    Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories...

  • Patty's Butterfly Days

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    "Different men are of different opinions; some like apples, some like inions," sang Patty, as she swayed herself idly back and forth in the veranda swing; "but, truly-ooly, Nan," she went on, "I don't care a snipjack. I'm quite ready and willing to g...

  • Patty's Social Season

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    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of ...

  • Patty's Success

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    Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories...

  • Patty's Suitors

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "It IS a boofy frock, isn't it, Nansome?" Patty craned her head over her shoulder, as ...

  • Patty's Summer Days

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    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of ...

  • Ptomaine Street

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    Ptomaine Street (1921) by Carolyn Wells is a Jazz Age story about Warble Petticoat--who begins life as Warble Mildew, is promptly expelled from school for putting a caterpillar done the neck of another girl (which result--the expulsion--Warble has be...

  • Raspberry Jam

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    Raspberry Jam is a classic locked-room whodunit featuring Detective Fleming Stone and is widely considered to be one of the best of the Fleming Stone Mysteries. Millionaire Sanford Embury is found dead in bed, alone, with the door of his second-...

  • The Seven Ages of Childhood

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  • Two Little Women

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  • Vicky Van

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    Chester Calhoun lives with his sister and his aunt in a house on the upper east side, and across the street lives beautiful and mysterious society hostess Victoria Van Allen, known to her friends as Vicky Van. Vicky is a an enigma. She lives in a stu...

  • Patty In Paris

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    But Mr. Fairfield had suddenly interfered with their plans by announcing his decision that Patty should go to college.

    This had raised such a storm of dissension from both Nan and Patty that Mr. Fairfield so far amended his resolution as to ...

  • The Re-Echo Club

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Two Little Women On A Holiday

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    Hello, Dolly, said Dotty Rose, over the telephone. "Hello, Dot," responded Dolly Fayre. "What you want?" "Oh! I can't tell you this way. Come on over, just as quick as you can." "But I haven't finished my Algebra, and it's nearly dinner time, anyway....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carolyn Wells has published 76 books.

Carolyn Wells does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eight Girls and a Dog, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Carolyn Wells, The Emily Emmins Papers, was published in August 1907.

No. Carolyn Wells does not write books in series.
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