- House of the Whispering Pines
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Anna Katharine Green
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The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the house. Hidden in the dark, he sees the sister of his fiance, the girl he secretly loves, run out of the house with tears in her eyes. Upstairs then, he discovers the dead body of his betrothed...
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- Chapters
- The Hesitating Step
- It was She - She Indeed!
- "Open!"
- The Odd Candlestick
- A Scrap of Paper
- Comments and Reflections
- Clifton Accepts my Case, part 1
- Clifton Accepts my Case, part 2
- A Chance! I Take It
- "We Know of no Such Letter"
- "I Can Help You"
- In the Coach House
- "Lila - Lila!"
- "What We Want is Here"
- The Motionless Figure
- Helen Surprises Sweetwater
- Cuthbert Road
- "Must I Tell These Things?", part 1
- "Must I Tell These Things?", part 2
- On It was Written
- "It's Not What You Will Find"
- "He or You! There is no Third"
- Carmel Awakes
- "Break in the Glass!"
- At Ten Instead of Twelve
- All This Stood
- "I am Innocent", part 1
- "I am Innocent", part 2
- The Syllable of Doom
- Expectancy
- "Where is my Brother?", part 1
- "Where is my Brother?", part 2
- "I Remembered the Room", part 1
- "I Remembered the Room", part 2
- "Choose", part 1
- "Choose", part 2
- "Were her Hands Crossed Then?"
- And I had Said Nothing!
- The Arrow of Death
- "Steady!"
- "As if It were a Mecca"
- The Surcharged Moment
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