title: My Dear Charlotte: With the assistance of Jane Austen's letters
author:  Hazel Holt 
description: Hazel Holt has many devoted fans in the United States and Great Britain as a writer of "cosy" British mysteries; she has published nineteen Mrs. Malory novels at last count. She is also known to admirers of Barbara Pym as the friend and biographer who additionally edited Pym's posthumous works.
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  # The House of the Whispering Pines
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anna Katharine Green
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  BOOK ONE. SMOKE
  
  
    
  I. THE HESITATING STEP
  
  
    
  II. IT WAS SHE—SHE INDEED!
  
  
    
  III. “OPEN!”
  
  
    
  IV. THE ODD CANDLESTICK
  
  
    
  V. A SCRAP OF PAPER
  
  
    
  VI. COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS
  
  
    
  VII. CLIFTON ACCEPTS MY CASE
  
  
    
  VIII. A CHANCE! I TAKE IT
  
  
  BOOK TWO. SWEETWATER TO THE FRONT
  
  
    
  IX. “WE KNOW OF NO SUCH LETTER”
  
  
    
  X. “I CAN HELP YOU”
  
  
    
  XI. IN THE COACH HOUSE
  
  
    
  XII. “LILA—LILA!”
  
  
    
  XIII. “WHAT WE WANT IS HERE”
  
  
    
  XIV. THE MOTIONLESS FIGURE
  
  
    
  XV. HELEN SURPRISES SWEETWATER
  
  
    
  XVI. 62 CUTHBERT ROAD
  
  
    
  XVII. “MUST I TELL THESE THINGS?”
  
  
    
  XVIII. ON IT WAS WRITTEN—
  
  
    
  XIX. “IT 'S NOT WHAT YOU WILL FIND”
  
  
  BOOK THREE. HIDDEN SURPRISES
  
  
    
  XX. “HE OR YOU! THERE IS NO THIRD”
  
  
    
  XXI. CARMEL AWAKES
  
  
    
  XXII. “BREAK IN THE GLASS!”
  
  
    
  XXIII. AT TEN INSTEAD OF TWELVE
  
  
  