Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books.
These were aimed at an older audience than most of the other syndicate books.
The first title, The Mansion of Mystery, was written by Edward Stratemeyer and the rest were ghostwritten.
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There was only one sound which broke the intense stillness of the jewelry shop on that fateful April morning. That sound was the ticking of the watch in the hand of the dead woman.
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