Poe, Jr.: The House Party Murders

“When Wayne Schofield planned that week-end party—which he didn’t attend—at his great country estate, he seemed strangely careless in his selection of guests. Each one seemed to be illicitly involved, and the amorous complications predicate an explosive affair. The surprise the absent host had arranged for his guests, however, turned out less gruesome than planned—two real cadavers in the well under the summer house left the illuminated skeleton provided practically unnoted.” (1940 reviewer)