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The Room with the Tassels

Carolyn Wells

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I’ll set in the kitchen and wait. Hester here, she’ll take the ladies to their rooms, and then after you get your supper, I’ll tell you all you ask me. But I rented this place to you, I didn’t agree to be a signboard and Farmers’ Almanac.”

“All right, old chap,” and Landon smiled faintly, “but don’t you get away till I see you. Now, girls, want to select your rooms?”

“Y-Yes,” began Eve, bravely, and then a glance up the dark staircase made her shudder.

“What we want is light,—and plenty of it,” broke in Braye. “Here you, Hester, I’ll relieve you of that lamp you’re holding, and you hop it, and get more,—six more,—twelve more—hear me?”

“We haven’t that many in the house.” Dull-eyed the woman looked at him with that sublime stolidity only achieved by born New Englanders.

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Community Reviews

So, for my work, I read this - a mystery novel from 1918 by prolific writer Carolyn Wells which introduces her Pennington "Penny" Wise series detective character. Penny Wise does not actually appear until 2/3rds of the way into the book, as we get an elaborate set-up involving some bored rich people

Too many characters, and most of them speak the same; it’s like an old Agatha Christie…there are so many moving parts that we don’t really care about any of them. Perhaps back then, the endgame of the mystery was in the solving of the puzzle alone, with the reader not expected to recognize, apprecia

Major characters:

Rudolph Braye
Eve Carnforth
Professor Hardwick
Milly Landon
Wynne Landon, her husband
Gifford Bruce
Vernie Reid, Gifford's 16-year old niece
Norma Cameron, a sensitive
John Tracy, a minister
Elijah Stebbins, owner of Black Aspens
Hester, housekeeper
Jed Thorpe, manservant
Dan Peterson, an ineff

The Room with the Tassels: A Pennington Wise Mystery by Carolyn Wells is an enchanting mystery, with an occult flavor, crafted by a writer with deft control of her story. In a perhaps haunted mansion in Vermont, a group of New Yorkers drawn but a storied murder committed in a tasseled room spend a m

The Room with the Tassels (Pennington Wise #1)
by Carolyn Wells

Another excellent mystery story in the series.

Loved it!

A group of wealthy people in NYC start discussing Spiritualism, which has come back into fashion: some of the group believe in it, even being "sensitive" themselves, while others are undecided or outright skeptical. The upshot is that they resolve to rent a haunted house for a month, live there toge

I love reading books written during the turn of the century. Does not meet 21st century expectations with a more leisurely pacing and set up

This started as a rather silly group of people talking about whether paranormal activity is real or a fake. They decide to travel to a "haunted house" as a rather strange way to spend their summer vacation ... The house is not what they expected (just what they thought a haunted house would be like,

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