Face Cards {1925} by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) is a variation on the locked-room theme: i.e. A murdered victim is found in a room locked fron the inside.
While not really outstanding, the murder mystery does have some interesting twists and a few reasonably effective characters.
I suspect that this is not one of her best work but it is still written quite competently and the story does genrerally hold our interest though the rather insipid romantic element is yawn-inducing.
Wells was very prolific, writing an autobiography, satires, some rather good children's poetry, young adult sequences as well as murder mysteries. She also wrote some classic limericks. Here's one:
A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
“A canner can can
Any thing that he can
But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
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