The Mystery of the Sycamore

Although never very taxing, I normally Wells mystery fiction, but this outing was an exception. I had trouble just accepting the absurd conditional pardon and that did influence the rest the of book for me. However the ultimate dissatisfaction was the characters, they all need a good slap.......more

Incredibly aggravating. An example of this: a man is shot. The gun is not seen on the lawn or in the rhododendron bushes, so everyone gives up looking for it. It is left among the ferns for three or four days until it finally occurs to someone to search the garden.......more

Carolyn Wells has created a number of early 20th century mysteries -- some good and some not so much but this one, is really not too bad. She creates a scenario in which a former governor turns to his former protagonist for a favor, and then when he is turned away, shows his true stripes and blackma......more

Imagine Sherlock Holmes dropped into a screwball comedy/mystery with a young Dr. Watson spouting newsboy slang and you have The Mystery of the Sycamore. This public domain book is available as a free download from Manybooks.net.......more

Carolyn Wells was a writer and poet educated in the 19th century who died in 1942, leaving behind a wealth of well-crafted novels as well as poetry. Her character "Fleming Stone," premiere detective, headlines many of her mysteries, which today would be called cozy. Not so cozy was this Mystery of t......more