Author:Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells
(1862–1942)

Carolyn Wells

Works

(Partial list)

Adult fiction

• Fleming Stone mysteries
  • The Clue (1909) no scan
  • The Gold Bag (1911) Project Gutenberg
  • A Chain of Evidence (1912) Project Gutenberg
  • The Maxwell Mystery (1913)
  • Anybody But Anne (1914)
  • The White Alley (1915)
  • The Curved Blades (1915) Project Gutenberg
  • The Mark of Cain (1917) Project Gutenberg
  • Vicky Van (1918) Project Gutenberg
  • The Diamond Pin (1919) Project Gutenberg
  • Raspberry Jam (1920) Project Gutenberg
  • The Mystery of the Sycamore (1921) Project Gutenberg
  • The Mystery Girl (1922) Project Gutenberg
  • Feathers Left Around (1923)
  • Spooky Hollow (1923)
  • Anything but the truth (1925)

• Alan Ford
  • The Bride of a Moment (1916)
  • Faulkner's Folly (1917)

• Pennington Wise
  • The Room with the Tassels (1918) Project Gutenberg
  • The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919) Project Gutenberg
  • In the Onyx Lobby (1920) Project Gutenberg
  • The Come-Back (1921) Project Gutenberg
  • The Luminous Face (1921) Project Gutenberg
  • The Vanishing of Betty Varian (1922) Project Gutenberg
  • The Affair at Flower Acres (1923)
  • Wheels Within Wheels (1923)

• Other novels
  • Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel (1902)
  • The Emily Emmins Papers (1907) Project Gutenberg
  • More Lives Than One (1923)
  • Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat (1921) Project Gutenberg
  • Deep Lake Mystery

• Verse
  • At the Sign of the Sphinx (1906)
  • The Re-Echo club (1913)
  • Diversions of the Re-Echo Club (1936)
  • Ballade of Baker Street (1939)
  • A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906)
  • A Ballade of Old Loves published in Our American Holidays - Christmas
  • Guy Wetmore Carryl, a short poem introducing the anthology The Garden of Years and Other Poems (1904)
  • Rubáiyát of a Motor Car Project Gutenberg
  • Rubáiyát of Bridge Project Gutenberg

• Anthologies (as editor)
  • A Nonsense Anthology (1910)
  • A Parody Anthology (1904)
  • Such Nonsense, An Anthology (1918)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931, 1932)
  • The Book of Humorous Verse Project Gutenberg

Children's fiction

• Patty Fairfield series
  • Patty Fairfield (1901)
  • Patty at Home (1904) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty in the City (1905) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Summer Days (1906) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty in Paris (1907) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Friends (1908) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Pleasure Trip (1909) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Success (1910) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Motor Car (1911) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Butterfly Days (1912) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Social Season (1913) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Suitors (1914) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty's Romance (1915) (external scan)
  • Patty's Fortune (1916) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty Blossom (1917) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty-Bride (1918) Project Gutenberg
  • Patty and Azalea (1919) Project Gutenberg

• Marjorie Maynard series
  • Marjorie's Vacation (1907) Project Gutenberg
  • Marjorie's Busy Days (1908) Project Gutenberg
  • Marjorie's New Friend (1909) Project Gutenberg
  • Marjorie in Command (1910) Project Gutenberg
  • Marjorie's Maytime (1911) Project Gutenberg
  • Marjorie at Seacote (1912) Project Gutenberg

• The Dorrance family
  • The Dorrance Domain (1905)
  • Dorrance Doings (1906)

• Two Little Women
  • Two Little Women (1915) Project Gutenberg
  • Two Little Women and Treasure House (1916) Project Gutenberg
  • Two Little Women on a Holiday (1917) Project Gutenberg

• Other novels
  • Folly in Fairyland (1901)
  • In the Reign of Queen Dick (1904)
  • Dick and Dolly (1909)
  • Dick and Dolly's Adventures (1910)
  • The Story of Betty (1911)

Collections of other stories

• Children of Our Town From the Collections at the Library of Congress

Nonfiction

• On Finishing Collector (1926)
• The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913)
• An Outline of Humor (1923) (external scan)
• Book of American Limericks (1925)

Works from magazines

• "The Adventure of the Clothes-line" (ss) Century Magazine, 1915
• "Diversions of the Re-Echo Club" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1909
• "An Easy Errand" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1910
• "Hilarity Hall" (nvt) St. Nicholas Magazine, 1902 Hilarity Hall: (in book form—expanded and revised—as Eight Girls and a Dog, 1902)
• "Improved Proverbs," Smart Set Vol 3, 1901
• "A Point of Testimony" (ss) Adventure Oct 1911
• "The Re-Echo Club" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1917
• "The Summer Girl and the Sand" (ss) Century Magazine, 1912
• "A Vindication of the Limerick" (prose & verse) Harper's Magazine, 1906
• "Belinda's Dimple" (1904 Dec, Delineator) (ss)
• "A Twentieth-Century Love" (1904 April, Smart Set) (ss)
• "The Inconsistent Bridegroom" (1907 Jan, Smart Set) (pm)
• "The Specimen Numbered Four" (1907 Aug, Ainslee's) (ss)
• "A Lovery Man" (1916 March, Smith's) (ss)
• "In Her Happiest Hour" (1919 Dec 23, Detective Story) (novella)
• "Rares and Antiques" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 141 (1920) IA

Verse

• "The Adventures of Little Katy" in Harper's Magazine, Jun 1904
• "An Acrobat’s Lament", edited by Mary Mapes Dodge, illustrated by Albertine Randall, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 32, No. 5 (March 1905)
• "Comic Opera Songs" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
• "At the Convention" in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1911
• "Babes and Antiques" in Harper's Magazine, Oct 1920
• "A Ballade of Protest" in Century Magazine, Jul 1913
• "English as She is Spelled" in Munsey's Magazine, Nov
• "Law of Compensation" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
• "On Meeting an Old Friend. (After Wordsworth)" in Harper's Magazine, Dec 1908
• "Progress" in Century Magazine, Feb 1906
• "The Rime of the Lady May" in Harper's Magazine, 1919
• "Thirty Charades" (charades) St. Nicholas vol. 28, 1901
• "To Omar" in Century Magazine, Feb 1900
• "The Better Part of Valor", edited by Mary Mapes Dodge, illustrated by unknown value, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 32, No. 1 (November 1904)
• "The Turnings of a Book-Worm" in Century Magazine, Dec 1904
• "Fine Feathers", edited by William Fayal Clarke, illustrated by Charles M. Relyea, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 40, No. 4 (February 1913)
• "The Ballad of Belle Brocade" illustrated by C. Clyde Squires in St. Nicholas Volume 41, No. 3 (1913)
• "A Nursery Pet", edited by William Fayal Clarke, illustrated by Reginald Bathurst Birch, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 40, No. 5 (March 1913)

Other

• Guy Wetmore Carryl (1904)
• The Meaning of Thanksgiving Day, a Seasonal Play (1922)

Works about Wells

• "Wells, Carolyn," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)