Mystery House Author:Kathleen Norris Page Hazeltyne was frustrated. Her life was drab. There were men who thought they loved her, but they were dull men. Her work was monotonous and unchanging. Then she took a job that was part nurse, part spy, in a vast mansion known as Mystery House, 40 miles down the coast from San Francisco. — There she found an odd group of people. Wealthy Mrs.... more » Prendergast was an alarmingly eccentric invalid who rumbled through musty passages in a wheel chair. her doctor, Rand Harwood, was too attractive for Page's peace of mind. Then there was Lynn, a strange, handsome young man whose place in the household was a mystery. And all of them were obsessed by a missing diamond -- one of the biggest in the world.
What happened to Page is a prowling tale of atmosphere and suspense and a warm and appeealing love story of the kind that has made Kathleen Norris famous. (Book first published in 1935).« less