Wadsworth Camp Mysteries

Sinister Island – Miller ignores the warning about visiting a haunted island and soon mysterious things begin to occur with his friends. The Abandoned Room – Bobby Brown's grandfather is murdered and no one knows how did the killer enter the locked room? The Gray Mask – Detective Garth and his daughter Nora are supernatural mystery hunter and on a mission to find schemers and hoaxers. The Signal Tower – Tolliver has to teach his colleague and former lodger Joe a lesson when he begins to harass his wife and son.

Sinister Island - Miller ignores the warning about visiting a haunted island and soon mysterious things begin to occur with his friends. The Abandoned Room - Bobby Brown's grandfather is murdered and no one knows how did the killer enter the locked room? The Gray Mask - Detective Garth and his daughter Nora are supernatural mystery hunter and on a mission to find schemers and hoaxers. The Signal Tower - Tolliver has to teach his colleague and former lodger Joe a lesson when he begins to harass his wife and son.

Bobby Brown's grandfather is murdered and no one knows how did the killer enter the locked room? Excerpt: "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 adventure which later was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts."

The Abandoned Room is a true master mystery that makes your head buzz with suspects. Who did it? Was it the grandson, in order to protect his inheritance? Was it the niece or maybe the butler or maid? Could it be the doctor or maybe the foreigner? All these suspects are inspected as the tale slowly unfolds. Wadsworth Camp wrote this work of suspense in 1917 and doesn't leave out a single element that still makes mysteries so popular today. Great setting with diverse characters. Highly recommended for an engaging and fast read.

Bobby Brown's grandfather is murdered and no one knows how did the killer enter the locked room? Excerpt: "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 adventure which later was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts."

Charles Wadsworth Camp was a writer and critic, as well as a foreign correspondent whose lungs were damaged by exposure to mustard gas during World War I. He was the father of Madeleine L'Engle. "The Abandoned Room" is a mystery novel.

The Abandoned Room, published in 1917, is a classic mystery novel written by Charles Wadsworth Camp. The book starts out with the mysterious death of Bobby Blackburn's grandfather.

Shuttling in the Golden Age of Mystery, Wadsworth Camp's thrilling mystery centers on the revival of a Broadway play that is plagued by a mysterious curse that kills its cast members. First published in 1916, the novel is fresh and fast paced and displays the high-standard story-telling qualities that would become the hallmark of the golden age. The novel was later developed into a successful play and silent movie. THE LAST WARNING, based on the book and the play, was the final film of the great silent film director Paul Leni.