24) A House to Let, by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter, via Librivox
(Wikipedia, where I looked both to check author names and to check my guesses about who wrote which sections, calls it a short story, but it's a long one, with several chapters, so whatever.)
An older woman, taking a change of scenery for her health, sees signs of life in the empty house across the way and becomes obsessed. First an old friend investigates the mystery of the house's past, then her faithful servant solves the mystery.
(Wikipedia, where I looked both to check author names and to check my guesses about who wrote which sections, calls it a short story, but it's a long one, with several chapters, so whatever.)
An older woman, taking a change of scenery for her health, sees signs of life in the empty house across the way and becomes obsessed. First an old friend investigates the mystery of the house's past, then her faithful servant solves the mystery.