Subtitled “a Melodrama,” this is not typical mystery fare, but the elements are all in place to create a suspenseful and surprising finale. As an orphan, Maud knows she is not the desirable type – with her wispy hair, dirty clothes, and her irrepressible leaning toward rebelliousness – so she is quite shocked when the [...]
>by Kathleen O’Dell Clara has grown up in an old, crumbling mansion where her mother is a housekeeper. The owner, Mrs. Glendoveer, is an elderly woman whose late husband was a magician. The house is in disrepair and large parts of it are shuttered, but it is all Clara has ever known. Her mother refuses [...]