The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Elwood Ranelagh is riding past the closed Whispering Pines Country Clubhouse when he notices smoke coming from a chimney. On entering Carmel Cumberland, the woman he loves rushes out, on investigation he discovers his betrothed, Adelaide, sister to Carmel dead. A few minutes later the police arrive and he is arrested.
An entertaining mystery originally written in 1910

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