DELL BOOK: The Yellow Room (Paperback) by Mary Roberts Rinehart

On a cold day in spring, love­ly Carol Spencer arrived in Maine to re-open the family summer mansion.

She was frightened by a strange odor of fire that lin­gered in the empty rooms. She traced it, at last, to a closed closet door, where it mingled with the smell of kerosene, burned paintand something else.

Carol opened the door, to horror she would remember the rest of her life.

Inside the closet lay the body of a woman. . .