Truly Devious

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers inventors and artists. It was founded by Albert ellingham an early twentieth century tycoon who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles twisting pathways and gardens. “A place” he said “where learning is a game.” shortly after the school opened his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder signed with the frightening pseudonym “truly devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at ellingham Academy and she has an ambitious plan: she will solve this cold case. That is she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor the novelist the actor the artist and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly devious makes a surprise return and death revisits ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.