Chapter III, Ada; Chapter IV, The Pollards

The Mill Mystery

by Anna Katharine GREEN (1864 - 1935)

In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mill. Almost immediately, rumors of suicide begin to circulate. But was it suicide? How could a devout man of the cloth come to believe life was hopeless? The young woman to whom he was secretly engaged is adamant that it could not be. When this young woman tragically dies on the same day as her lover, it is left to her roommate Constance Sterling, a young woman without family or prospects, to determine the truth. (Summary by Jacquerie)

Listen next episodes of The Mill Mystery:
Chapter IX, An Unexpected Discovery , Chapter V, Doubts and Queries , Chapter VI, Mrs. Pollard , Chapter VII, Advances , Chapter VIII, A Flower from the Pollard Conservatory , Chapter X, Rhoda Colwell , Chapter XI, Under the Mill Floor , Chapter XII, Dwight Pollard , Chapter XIII, Guy Pollard , Chapter XIII, Too Late , Chapter XIV, Correspondence , Chapter XIX, A Fatal Delay; Chapter XX, The Old Mill , Chapter XV, A Gossip , Chapter XVI, The Green Envelope , Chapter XVII, David Barrows; Chapter XVIII, A Last Request , Chapter XXI, The Vat , Chapter XXII, The Cypher , Chapter XXIV, Confronted; Chapter XXV, The Final Blow , Chapter XXVI, A Feline Touch; Chapter XXVII, Reparation , Chapter XXVIII, Two or One