02348cam a2200313 4500 509664087 TxAuBib 20211008120000.0 210316s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021012428 9780593334560 PAP 16.00 0593334566 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib Seeley, Mabel, 1903-1991. The chuckling fingers [BOOK] / Mabel Seeley. Berkley Prime Crime trade paperback edition. [New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021. x, 318 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm. "Rediscover one of the great mystery authors of the twentieth century in this Depression-era tale of a wealthy family's dark secrets turning deadly on their remote lakeside estate. An urgent note from a friend spurs Ann Gay to visit her recently married cousin, Jacqueline Heaton. Upon her arrival at Fiddler's Fingers, a remote, pine-grown estate on Lake Superior, Ann immediately senses her cousin's fear-someone has been playing increasingly malicious tricks on the Heatons, a proud family of Minnesota lumber tycoons, and all signs point to Jacqueline as the instigator. Ann quickly resolves to take Jacqueline and her young daughter, Toby, away from the danger. But what began as seemingly trivial pranks-ruined clothes, a burnt bed, a smashed boat-escalates to direct attacks and ultimately murder. Everyone on the estate and nearby resort, including the entire Heaton family, becomes a suspect. Potential motives are revealed as Ann learns more about the Heaton family, and with no chance of anyone leaving Fiddler's Fingers until the killer is caught, Ann realizes that the only way to prove her cousin's innocence is by snaring the murderer herself. The trap is set; with herself as bait, Ann's door creaks open in the night as a cloaked figure moves silently towardher bed..."-- Provided by publisher. 20211008. Cousins Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Lumber camps Fiction. Mentally ill Fiction. Malicious mischief Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Mystery fiction.