The Case of the Weird Sisters Author:Charlotte Armstrong Innes Whitlock, a greying millionare, and Alice Brennan his attractive and youthful, fortune hunting fiancee, are enjoying their chauffeur-driven ride to his Northern Michigan country home. Car trouble diverts them to Ogaunee, a semi-deserted, dilipidated mining town where Innes's three sisters reside. In meeting Alice, blind Gertrude, deaf Maud... more »e and one-armed Isabel are polite, but seem eccentric, or even a bit... wel, weird.
Innes soon develops a mysterious case of food poisoning, narrowly misses a crashing kerosene lamp, nearly drives off a cliff, and almost takes an aspirin laced with strychnine. Fearing that one of the sisters might be a murderess, Alice begins to question her matrimonial scheme. Strange in-laws are one thing, to be expected, but deadly ones are quite another. Alice must act soon or lose her prospective spouse and fortune... and very possibly her life!« less
Written in 1943 this murder mystery is called pleasantly creepy, excellently written, filled with fascinating characters, suspense and honest detecting......difficult to put down.