Death of a Doll

When a young department store clerk named Ruth Miller falls seven stories to her death from her room at Hope House—a boarding home for working women in New York City—most assume it is a suicide. However, a concerned customer suspects foul play and hires detective Mark East to investigate. As a second violent death occurs and tension builds among the suspicious residents, East receives help from two amateur-sleuthing spinsters, Beulah Pond and Bessy Petty, in this atmospheric “whodunit”.