Synopsis from the flap:A vivid, petite Spanish dancer or a tall blond, exquisitely beautiful and dignified - which would you accuse of murdering Gay Homer? When Homer was stabbed after his own dinner party, Diana, who scorned his love, and Marita, whose love he scorned, were alone with him in the Tapestry Room. In that two minutes of dark could anyone else have entered the den, snatched up the dagger, murdered the hose, and left the house unnoticed? Fleming Stone, called in to avenge his friend's death, found several small clues - a whiff of camphor, a tick of a watch, a blade of grass - which led to a startling solution of the crime. Here is an unusually fine detective story and as knotty a problem as Fleming Stone ever tackled.
About the author:Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862-March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), around 1910 she heard one of Anna Katherine Green's mystery novels being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unravelling of the puzzle. From that point onward, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which-according to Allen J. Hubin's Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000 (2003)-number 61 titles.