Water Weed: A Golden Age Mystery

by Alice Campbell

Overview

"Her maid found her this morning. She was lying across the bed, strangled."

Young Virginia Carew is making a trip to England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier-strangely altered from the last time they met. Glenn is besotted with a glamorous middle-aged lady, with whom he's been staying in the blissful English countryside. It isn't long before Virginia too is a guest of the family, but there are snakes in this garden of Eden-snakes at first entangled in jealousy; then blackmail; finally murder.

In the events which follow, Glenn disappears, suspected by some of suicide. Virginia finds her world up-ended as events take an ever darker turn. It'll be up the intrepid young American to stay one step ahead of the police, and finish the case before the deadly water weed pulls her down . . .

Water Weed was originally published in 1929. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

"She could not be unexciting if she tried" Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915014887
Publisher:	Dean Street Press
Publication date:	06/06/2022
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Alice Campbell (1887-1955) came originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was part of the socially prominent Ormond family. She moved to New York City at the age of nineteen and quickly became a socialist and women's suffragist. Later she moved to Paris, marrying the American-born artist and writer James Lawrence Campbell, with whom she had a son in 1914.Just before World War One, the family left France for England, where the couple had two more children, a son and a daughter. Campbell wrote crime fiction until 1950, though many of her novels continued to have French settings. She published her first work (Juggernaut) in 1928. She wrote nineteen detective novels during her career.