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Put Out the Light

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Put Out The Light is a 1931 Mystery novel by writer Ethel Lina White.[1]

Background

Ethel Lina White was a renowned mystery writer in both Britain and the United States in the 1930s and 40s. Put Out The Light, despite being her fourth novel, was her first published myserty novel.

Plot

Anthea Vine is vain, controlling spinster. She gives of an illunsion of youth and charm. She lives in a solitary house on a hill, Jamaica Court, keeping her fellow five inmates in her financially imprisoned. She interferes in their love affairs, and keeps their lives under complete control. However someone is out to get Miss Vine, and Jamaica Court suddenly becomes her own prison.

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