What's in a name 4 challenge complete

I completed the What's in a name 4 Challenge

Dead simple by Peter James(2005) Life Stage

The man in lower ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1906) Number

The Amethyst box by Anna Katherine Green (1905) Gem

The case of the lamp that went out by Augusta Groner (1910) Travel/Movement

From out the vasty deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes(1921) Size

Blood Work by Michael Connelly (1998)
Evil


I read four vintage mysteries and two contemporary mysteries. Of the six books, five authors are new to me. Connelly was the only author I read before. Hunting books for this challenge was fun, especially because I wanted to club it up with vintage mystery challenge. I had to look for books published before 1960 by women writers with the particular theme in the title. I enjoyed participating in the challenge.

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katherine Green

More a novella than a novel is published in 1905. The Amethyst box containing a tiny flask with a drop of deadly poison sufficient to kill a person goes missing on the eve of Sinclair's wedding. The suspects are the bride Gilbertine Murray and her cousin, Dorothy Camerden, in whom the narrator is interested. Somebody dies. Who killed and why? With just two suspects the suspicion moves from one to another and back again. There are a few twists too. Short and sweet.
The Ebook I downloaded also had two other stories -The house in the Mist and the Ruby and the Cladron. The Narrator is lost in mist in the night. Seeing lights from a distant house goes there to find all the doors open. So what does he see in the house, what happens is the story. It creates quite an atmosphere and there is a sense of foreboding.
The ruby and the cladron tells the story of a lost Ruby. Who stole the ruby and why? Interesting story.