Dutton, Charles J. Streaked with Crimson (New York: Collier, c1929) 280 p. Front Page Mysteries, second series.

Abigail Tripp is the “thin, little nervous librarian” (p. 101) in the small coastal town of Mansfield. She is curious and is always snooping on her neighbors. But when she finds one of them murdered she loses her curiosity forever.