A review by ssejig
The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.0

Set during prohibition, the narrator is a twenty-seven-year-old spinster. While the world around her is changing rapidly, the neighborhood she lives in is set in their ways, still clinging to a world that was all but gone. Every day, every week is exactly the same. Which is what makes the murder of one of the residents all the more astonishing. As are the secrets (like the fact that the victim was hording gold) all the more interesting.
The internal dialogue in Louisa's (Lou, the narrator) mind meant that we as readers really get to know her, and to see her grow.
Definitely a product of its time with some language that would be considered very un-PC today.