Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Judge Ostrander of Shelby has become a recluse, but he is approached by the wife of a murderer a Mrs Averill (a name she assumed after the hanging of her husband). The victim was the Judges' best friend, Algernon Etheridge, and he was the Judge on the case. The convicted murderer was John Scoville.
Now Reuther Averill (Scoville) and Oliver Ostrander, the Judges son, were to have married but on finding out the truth of her father, Reuther withdrew. Now Mrs Scoville wants to prove her husband innocent so that the offspring can marry.
So who did kill Algernon Etheridge.
An enjoyable crime story originally published in 1914

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