The Disappearance of Kimball Webb

"The Disappearance of Kimball Webb" by Rowland Wright is a captivating mystery set in the early 1900s, centered around the baffling vanishing act of Kimball Webb, a playwright from New York, right before he's set to marry Elsie Powell. The story spotlights the tense family drama, especially Webb's difficult relationships with his mother and sister, who strongly dislike Elsie, thereby twisting the puzzle of his disappearance. Readers are introduced to Kimball as a man on the verge of marriage, but his disappearance on his wedding day throws everything into chaos, with it appearing he vanished from a locked room, causing confusion. As the mystery deepens, the story creates suspense, with suspicion falling on the women in his life, suggesting that they may be hiding something as the mystery unravels.