Wadsworth Camp

Wadsworth Camp
Wadsworth Camp (1879–1936) was an American novelist and playwright known for his mystery and detective fiction. One of his most famous works is "The Abandoned Room" (1917), which blends mystery with elements of supernatural horror. He also wrote "The House of Fear" (1916), further establishing his reputation in the crime and suspense genre. Camp was the father of author Madeleine L'Engle, best known for her novel "A Wrinkle in Time."

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CHAPTER I KATHERINE HEARS THE SLY STEP OF DEATH AT THE CEDARS The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his will. As a consequence he drifted into that strange... more...

OAKMONT George Morton never could be certain when he first conceived the preposterous idea that Sylvia Planter ought to belong to him. The full realization, at any rate, came all at once, unexpectedly, destroying his dreary outlook, urging him to fantastic heights, and, for that matter, to rather curious depths. It was, altogether, a year of violent change. After a precarious survival of a rural... more...