The Bolted Door

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.


The Bolted Door is a short story by Edith Wharton that resembles works of Agatha Christie. The story goes round Hubert Granice — a man of the upper-class who waste his life on worthless idleness. One day he gets so bored that he decides to confess the murder of his cousin...