Wells, Carolyn: Prilligirl (1924): v1
 

Fleming Stone #17

I have only a handful of later Fleming Stone books, after #15, starting here with #17. They were not, so far as I know, marketed in Australia, where I live. I've never seen a single Carolyn Wells book in my years of fossicking in second-hand bookshops.

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. Ms Wells certainly has a genius for intriguing book titles.