Лили Мэй Футрелл «The Grinning God»

the first part (published at the end of November, which seems a month too late to me) was written by May Futrelle, wife of Jacques, under the title ‘Wraiths of the Storm’, with the express intention that she provide a range of seemingly otherworldly occurrences which would admit no explanation. The following week, under the title ‘The House That Was’, her husband would bring the full intellect of his genius amateur detective Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen — “the Thinking Machine” — to bear on the problems, and show how each could be attributed to an earthly cause.