Anna Katharine Green 
The House of the Whispering Pines [EPUB ebook] 

‘The House of the Whispering Pines’ is a classic mystery novel by American author Anna Katharine Green first published in 1910.
The country club house
The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the house. Hidden in the dark, he sees the sister of his fiance, the girl he secretly loves, run out of the house with tears in her eyes. Upstairs then, he discovers the dead body of his betrothed…