Reproduction of the original: The Four-Pools Mystery by Jean Webster

"The Four-Pools Mystery" is a ghost mystery thriller set in the American South. Arnold, an overworked lawyer in New York City suffers a health breakdown and is advised by his doctor to take a break. He decides to take up his uncle's offer to come and stay for a while at the Four Pools Plantation which his uncle owns. But Arnold's visit comes just as mysterious happenings and sounds are beginning to be observed at the plantation. The plantation's workers think it's the return of the 'ha'nt', a ghost who has been a terror to the plantation for generations. Arnold decides to investigate, calling up an old acquaintance to help him...

Reproduction of the original: The Four-Pools Mystery by Jean Webster

"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true cause of Austen's death, and it's a truth which will greatly outrage Austen fans. Elizabeth and Aunt Winnie don't take him or his findings seriously. But someone must, because during the costume ball, Baines is stabbed to death. Kiely expertly combines the wit and spunk of Austen's protagonists with a contemporary traditional mystery, creating an entertaining puzzle. Austen fans especially are in for a big treat"--

Terry Patten, star-reporter for the The Post-Dispatch, is called to investigate a case of missing bonds allegedly stolen by a ghost from a safe at Four-Pools Plantation in Virginia when Colonel Gaylord, the patriarch of the plantation, is found murdered.