The Crying Sisters: A Mystery

When Mabel Seeley died at the age of eighty-eight in New Jersey in 1991, the St. Paul Pioneer Press described the former St. Paulite as a "well-known mystery writer in the '30s and '40s." That she was Mabel Seeley's novels were published by Doubleday and distriubted nationally by the prestigious Crime Club. Her last mystery, THE WHISTLING SHADOW (set in Minneapolis) was published in 1954 to high praise from the New York Herold Tribune Book Review: "In this new tale she is as adroit as ever in evoking and expressing terror, fed fat on intuitions." Cover painting for these new Afton Press reprint editions THE BECKONING DOOR, THE CHUCKLING FINGERS, THE WHISTLING SHADOW, and THE CRYING SISTERS] by Paul S. Kramer.