The trouble at Pinelands
The narrator, an elderly bachelor of settled habits, is spending a few nights at Fort House, the McGregors' grim stone mansion in the North Carolina pine country, while the master is away arranging his sister's wedding. The household is being tormented by what looks like a poltergeist, there is a feud with neighbors, a tragedy, an inquest, a fire and a lynching only just prevented, and the trail leads into the mountains and an illicit still. Ernest M. Poate, a physician who wrote detective fiction for the pulps, published the novel in 1922. It is a rural American mystery with Southern local color and a rational explanation held back until the end. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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What kind of book is The trouble at Pinelands?
The trouble at Pinelands by Ernest M. Poate is filed under "Mystery" in the Vinteuil library.
