Mary Roberts Rinehart Books In Order

Letitia (Tish) Carberry Books In Order

  1. The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911)
  2. Tish (1916)
  3. More Tish (1921)
  4. Tish Plays the Game (1926)
  5. Tish Marches On (1937)

Hilda Adams Books In Order

  1. Miss Pinkerton (1932)
  2. Haunted Lady (1942)
  3. Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950)

Novels

  1. The Man in Lower Ten (1906)
  2. The Circular Staircase (1908)
  3. When a Man Marries (1910)
  4. The Window at the White Cat (1910)
  5. Where There’s a Will (1912)
  6. The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)
  7. The After House (1914)
  8. K (1915)
  9. The Amazing Interlude (1918)
  10. Dangerous Days (1919)
  11. A Poor Wise Man (1920)
  12. The Truce of God (1920)
  13. The Breaking Point (1922)
  14. The Red Lamp (1925)
  15. Two Flights Up (1928)
  16. The Door (1930)
  17. The Album (1933)
  18. The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933)
  19. The Wall (1938)
  20. The Great Mistake (1940)
  21. The Yellow Room (1945)
  22. The Confession (1946)
  23. Sight Unseen (1946)
  24. The Swimming Pool (1952)
  25. The Frightened Wife (1953)
  26. The Street of Seven Stars (1966)

Omnibus

  1. Sight Unseen / The Confession (1921)

Collections

  1. Love Stories (1919)
  2. Affinities (1920)
  3. Temperamental People (1924)
  4. Nomad’s Land (1926)
  5. The Romantics (1929)
  6. Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Crime Book (1933)
  7. Married People (1937)
  8. Alibi for Isabel (1944)
  9. The Confession / Sight Unseen (1959)

Plays

  1. The Bat (1920)

Novellas

  1. The Broken Quarantine (1906)

Non fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart Books Overview

The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

About the Author Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was an American novelist and playwright best known for her mystery stories. Rinehart’s work is very different from the cliches of Rinehart criticism. It has a lot in common with hard boiled school, in both style and subject. It also is part of the American school of ‘scientific’ detection. In fact, all three groups, scientific, hard boiled, and Rinehart show common features. They form an American school that mixes adventure and detection. There is an attempt at realism in the depiction of modern life, with many different clas*ses, corruption high and low, and a great diversity of characters. Her most memorable tales combined murder, love, ingenuity, and humor in a style that was distinctly her own. While her general novels were her best selling books, she was most highly regarded by critics for her carefully plotted murder mysteries. It was one of her books that produced the phrase, ‘The butler did it,’ and in her prime, she was more famous than her chief rival, England’s Agatha Christie. Her autobiography, My Story, appeared in 1931 and was revised in 1948. At Rinehart’s death her books had sold more than 10 million copies.

Tish

MIND OVER MOTOR HOW TISH BROKE THE LAW AND SOME RECORDS I So many unkind thin~s have been said of the affair .J at lforris Valley that I thilJi!Jt best to publish a straightforward account of everything. The ill nature of the cartoon, for instance, which showed Tish in a pair ot khaki trousers on her back under a racing-car was quite uncalled for. Tish did not wear the khaki trousers; she merely took them along in case of emergency . Nor was ,it true that Tish took Aggie along as a mechanician and brutally pushed her off the car because she was not pumping enough oil. The fact was that Aggie sneezed on a curve and fell out of the car, and would no doubt have been killed had she not been thrown into a pile of sand. It was in early September that Eliza Bailey, my cousin, decided to go to London, ostensibly for a rest, but really to get some cretonne at Liberty’s. Eliza wrote me at Lake Penzance asking me to go to Morris Valley and look after Bettina. I must confes

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; MIND OVER MOTOR; LIKE A WOLF ON TIlE FOLD; TUE SIMPLE LIFERS ?; TISH’S SpY ? ?; ~iy COUNTRY TISH OF THEE-; ?; ?; 1; 47; ? 101; 165; 257

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More Tish

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Tish Plays the Game

The third of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic ‘Tish’ stories, reprinted in facsimile.

Miss Pinkerton

When Herbert Wynne is found dead, with a bullet in the forehead, the obvious explanation is murder. But how could it be when the only possible suspect is Herbert’s frail Aunt Juliet? Posing as Juliet’s private duty nurse, the Homicide Bureau’s Hilda Adams develops grave suspicions. Why is the maid terrified of every dark corner? And if a mad killer is on the loose, who will be targeted as the next victim? Reissue. .

The Man in Lower Ten

CONTENTS: I. I GO TO PITTSBURG II. A TORN TELEGRAM III. ACROSS THE AISLE IV. NUMBERS SEVEN AND NINE V. THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT CAR VI. THE GIRL IN BLUE VII. A FINE GOLD CHAIN VIII. THE SECOND SECTION IX. THE HALCYON BREAKFAST X. MISS WEST’S REQUEST XI. THE NAME WAS SULLIVAN XII. THE GOLD BAG XIII. FADED ROSES XIV. THE TRAP DOOR XV THE CINEMATOGRAPH XVI. THE SHADOW OF A GIRL XVII. AT THE FARM HOUSE AGAIN XVIII. A NEW WORLD XIX. AT THE TABLE NEXT XX. THE NOTES AND A BARGAIN XXI. MCKNIGHT’S THEORY XXII. AT THE BOARDING HOUSE XXIII. A NIGHT AT THE LAURELS XXIV. HIS WIFE’S FATHER XXV. AT THE STATION XXVI. ON TO RICHMOND XXVII. THE SEA, THE SAND, THE STARS XXVIII. ALISON’S STORY XXIX. IN THE DINING ROOM X*X. FINER DETAILS X*XI. AND ONLY ONE ARM an excerpt from CHAPTER I: I GO TO PITTSBURG McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of The Man in Lower Ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering, white faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last. McKnight could tell the story a great deal better than I, although he can not spell three consecutive words correctly. But, while he has imagination and humor, he is lazy. ‘It didn’t happen to me, anyhow,’ he protested, when I put it up to him. ‘And nobody cares for second hand thrills. Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I’m no hand for that. I’m a lawyer.’ So am I, although there have been times when my assumption in that particular has been disputed. I am unmarried, and just old enough to dance with the grown up little sisters of the girls I used to know. I am fond of outdoors, prefer horses to the aforesaid grown up little sisters, am without sentiment am crossed out and was substituted. Ed. and completely ruled and frequently routed by my housekeeper, an elderly widow. In fact, of all the men of my acquaintance, I was probably the most prosaic, the least adventurous, the one man in a hundred who would be likely to go without a deviation from the normal through the orderly procession of the seasons, summer suits to winter flannels, golf to bridge. So it was a queer freak of the demons of chance to perch on my unsusceptible thirty year old chest, tie me up with a crime, ticket me with a love affair, and start me on that sensational and not always respectable journey that ended so surprisingly less than three weeks later in the firm’s private office. It had been the most remarkable period of my life. I would neither give it up nor live it again under any inducement, and yet all that I lost was some twenty yards off my drive! It was really McKnight’s turn to make the next journey. I had a tournament at Chevy Chase for Saturday, and a short yacht cruise planned for Sunday, and when a man has been grinding at statute law for a week, he needs relaxation. But McKnight begged off. It was not the first time he had shirked that summer in order to run down to Richmond, and I was surly about it. But this time he had a new excuse…
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The Circular Staircase

The summer occupants of ‘Sunnyside’ find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on The Circular Staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest.
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in me the instinct of the chase. Were I a man I should be a trapper of criminals, trailing them as relentlessly as no doubt my sheepskin ancestor did his wild boar. But being an unmarried woman, with the handicap of my sex, my first acquaintance with crime will probably be my last. Indeed, it came near enough to being my last acquaintance with anything.
The property was owned by Paul Armstrong, the president of the Traders’ Bank, who at the time we took the house was in the west with his wife and daughter, and a Doctor Walker, the Armstrong family physician. Halsey knew Louise Armstrong,–had been rather attentive to her the winter before, but as Halsey was always attentive to somebody, I had not thought of it seriously, although she was a charming girl. I knew of Mr. Armstrong only through his connection with the bank, where the children’s money was largely invested, and through an ugly story about the son, Arnold Armstrong, who was reported to have forged his father’s name, for a considerable…


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The Circular Staircase; CONTENTS; chapter fagc; I I Take a Country House 9; 11 A Link Cutf-Button 19; III Mr John Bailey Appears 29; IV Where is Halsey? 35; V Gertrude’s Engagement 43; VI In the East Corridor 51; VII A Sprained Ankle 59; VIII The Other Half of the Link 68; IX Just Like a Girl 80; X The Traders’ Bank 90; XI Halsey Makes a Capture 99; XII One Mystery for Another 105; XIII Louise ? ‘5; XIV An Egc-Nog and a Telegram 129; XV Liddy Gives the Alarm 136; XVI In the Early Morning 143; XVII A Hint of Scandal ??? 149; XVIII A Hole in the

When a Man Marries

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT THE minute I had consented I regretted it. After all, what were Jimmy’s troubles to me? Why should I help him impose on an unsuspecting elderly woman ? ‘And it was only putting off discovery anyhow. Sooner or later, she would learn of the divorce, and Just at that instant my eyes fell on Mr. Harbison Tom Harbison, as Anne called him. He was looking on with an amused, half puzzled smile, while people were rushing around hiding the roulette wheel and things of which Miss Caruthers might disapprove, and Betty Mercer was on her knees winding up a toy bear that Max had brought her. What would he think ? It was evident that he thought badly of us already that he was contemptuously amused, and RUSHING AROUND HIDING THE ROULETTE WHEEL AND THINGS then to have to ask him to lend himself to the deception ! With a gasp I hurled myself after Jimmy, only to hear a strange voice in the hall and to know that I was too late. I was in for it, whatever was coming. It was Aunt Selina who was coming along the hall, followed by Jim, who was mopping his face and trying not to notice the paralyzed silence in the library. Aunt Selina met me in the doorway. To my frantic eyes she seemed to tower above us by at least a foot, and beside her Jimmy was a red, perspiring cherub. ‘Here she is,’ Jimmy said, from behind a temporary eclipse of black cloak and traveling bag. He was on top of the situation now, and he was mendaciously cheerful. He had not said, ‘Here is my ! wife.’ That would have been a lie. No, Jimmy ‘merely said, ‘Here she is.’ If Aunt Selina chose to think me Bella, was it not her responsibility? And if I chose to accept the situation, was it not mine? Dallas Brown came forward gravely as Aunt Selinafolded over and kissed me, and surreptitio…

The Window at the White Cat

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CHAPTER X BREAKING THE NEWS WARDROP looked so wretched that I asked him into my room, and mixed him some whiskey and water. When I had given him a cigar he began to look a little less hopeless. ‘You’ve been a darned sight better to me than I would have been to you, under the circumstances,’ he said gratefully. ‘I thought we would better arrange about Miss Margery before we try to settle down,’ I replied. ‘What she has gone through in the last twenty four hours is nothing to what is coming to morrow. Will you tell her about her father?’ He took a turn about the room. ‘I believe it would come better from you,’ he said finally. ‘I am in the peculiar position of having been suspected by her father of robbing him, by you of carrying away her aunt, and now by the police and everybody else of murdering her father.’ ‘I do not suspect you of anything,’ I justified myself. ‘I don’t think you are entirely open, that is all, Wardrop. I think you are damaging yourself ito shield some one else.’ His expressive face was on its guard in a moment. He ceased his restless pacing, pausing impressively before me. ‘I give you my word as a gentleman I do not know who killed Mr. Fleming, and that when I first saw him dead, my only thought was that he had killed himself. He had threatened to, that day. Why, if you think I killed him, you would have to think I robbed him, too, in order to find a motive.’ I did not tell him that that was precisely what Hunter did think. I evaded the issue. ‘Mr. Wardrop, did you ever hear of the figures eleven twenty two?’ I inquired. ‘Eleven twenty two?’ he repeated. ‘No, never in any unusual connection.’ ‘You never heard Mr. Fleming use them?’ I persisted. He looked puzzled. ‘Probably,’ he said. ‘In the very nature of Mr. Fleming’s position, we used figures all the…

Where There’s a Will

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

The Case of Jennie Brice

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

The After House

By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know. Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me. Perhaps, coming of a family of doctors, I merely followed the line of least resistance. It may be, indirectly but inevitably, that I might be on the yacht Ella on that terrible night of August 12, more than a year ago. I got through somehow. I played quarterback on the football team, and made some money coaching. In summer I did whatever came to hand, from chartering a sail boat at a summer resort and taking passengers, at so much a head, to checking up cucumbers is Indiana for a Western pickle house. I was practically alone. Commencement left me with a diploma, a new dress suit, an out of date medical library, a box of surgical instruments of the same date as the books, and an incipient case of typhoid fever. I was twenty four, six feet tall, and forty inches around the chest. Also, I had lived clean, and worked and played hard. I got over the fever finally, pretty much all bone and appetite; but alive. Thanks to the college, my hospital care had cost nothing. It was a good thing: I had just seven dollars in the world.

K

CHAPTER I THE Street stretched away north and south in two ‘lines of ancient houses that seemed to meet in the distance. The man found it infinitely inviting. It had the well worn look of an old coat, shabby but comfortable. The thought of coming there to live pleased him. Surely here would be peace long evenings in which to read, quiet nights in ,vhich to sleep and forget. It was an impression of home, really, that it gave. The man did not know that, or care particularly. He had been wandering about a long time not in years, for he was less than thirty. But it seemed a very long time. At the little house no one had seemed to think about references. He could have given one or two, of a sort. He had gone to considerable trouble to get them; and no,v, not to have them asked for There was a house across and a little way down the Street, with a card in the window that said: ‘Meals, nventy five cents.’ Evidently the midday meal was over; men who looked like clerAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www. forgottenbooks. org

The Amazing Interlude

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mind, of course, for in her small circle young unmarried women accepted the major events of life without question, and certainly without conversation. She never, for instance, allowed her Uncle James, with whom she lived, to see her working at the afghan; and even her Aunt Harriet had supposed it to be a sweater until it assumed uncompromising proportions. Sara Lee’s days, up to the twentieth of December, 1914, had been much alike. In the mornings she straightened up her room, which she had copied from one in a woman’s magazine, with the result that it gave somehow the impression of a baby’s bassinet, being largely dotted Swiss and ribbon. Yet in a way it was a perfect setting for Sara Lee herself. It was fresh and virginal, and very, very neat and white. A resigned little room, like Sara Lee, resigned to being tucked away in a corner and to having no particular outlook. Peaceful, too. Sometimes in the morning between straightening her room and going to the market for Aunt Harriet, Sara Lee looked at a newspaper. So she knew there was a war. She read the headings, and when the matter came up for mention at the little afternoon bridge club, as it did now and then after the prizes were distributed, she always said ‘ Isn’t it horrible! ‘ and changed the subject. On the night of the nineteenth of December Sara Lee had read her chapter in the Bible she read it through once each year and had braided down her hair, which was as smooth and shining and lovely asSara Lee herself, and had raised her window for the night when Aunt Harriet came in. Sara Lee did not know, at first, that she had a visitor. She stood looking out toward the east, until Aunt Harriet touched her on the arm. ‘What in the world!’ said Aunt Harriet. ‘A body would suppose it was August.’ ‘ I was just…

Dangerous Days

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

A Poor Wise Man

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

The Truce of God

‘If I should lie in a manger all night,’ she said, standing with her feet well apart and looking up at him, ‘would I become a boy?’ The Bishop tugged at his beard. ‘A boy, little maid! Would you give up your blue eyes and your soft skin to be a roystering lad?’ ‘My father wishes for a son,’ she had replied and the cloud that was over the Castle shadowed the Bishop’s eyes. ‘It would not be well,’ he replied, ‘to tamper with the works of the Almighty. Pray rather for this miracle, that your father’s heart be turned toward you and toward the lady, your mother.’ from The Truce of God Mary Roberts Rinehart’s popular fiction about nurses who solve crimes and adventurous spinsters made her one of the most popular novelists and short story writers of the early 20th century, a feminist, comic Raymond Chandler. The Truce of God, written during the era of her more serious writing, is a medieval Christmas fairy tale about Lord Charles the Fair and his young daughter, Clotilde, who longs for something more than her gender is typically allowed in these dark times. Grimly charming, The Truce of God here in a replica of the beautiful 1920 edition is an excellent example of the engaging storytelling that first captivated Rinehart’s readers.

The Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

The Red Lamp

William Porter has just inherited Twin Hollows, an isolated lakeside estate shrouded in mystery and doom. But William and his wife aren’t easily swayed by ghost stories and whispered rumors. Until a shadowy apparition beckons to them from the undying glow of a red lamp. Is a stranger with a deadly purpose trying to frighten them away? Or are they being haunted by a chilling warning from the grave? Reissue.

Two Flights Up

1928. Rinehart, American writer of mystery novels known for their humor and ingenuity, begins Two Flights Up: Answering the front door at the Bayne house was a lengthy matter. The postman had learned this long ago, and now he merely laid the mail in the vestibule and went away. First, Mrs. Bayne would look in the old reflecting mirror which still hung from her bedroom window and take note of the ringer. Then she would whisper cautiously over the stair rail: It’s the milk bill. I’m not in. Or, as had been happening more and more frequently for the last six months: It’s Furness, Holly. Come right up, and I’ll send down your Aunt Margaret to receive him. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Door

An altered will leads to four murders which baffle Miss Bell, her family and the reader. Will Inspector Harrison be able to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair? You’ll have to listen to find out! Six 90 minute cassettes.

The Album

For years, the five families on exclusive Crescent Place lived in peaceful seclusion. But that changed when old Mrs. Lancaster was found brutally murdered with an ax. Suddenly, motives and suspects are developing at a rapid pace, and when the killer strikes again and again Louisa Hall knows it’s up to her to discover the clues that will develop a picture of murder.

The Wall

Dazzling and devious Juliette was anything but popular with the upper class set she’d married in to. Her husband, Arthur, bought her off with a ruinously expensive divorce. But a few years later, Juliette turned up again and days later she was dead. Almost everyone in the exclusive town had a motive for wanting Juliette dead. Now, it’s up to skeptical Sheriff Russell Shand to pierce The Wall of aristocratic silence, and find the ruthless killer.

The Great Mistake

Patricia Abbott’s desperate need for a job brings her to the Wainwright mansion, where she soon discovers that she is no match for Tony Wainwright’s magnetism or for his wife’s hatred.’

The Yellow Room

A corpse has been discovered in the linen closet of the Spencer’s Maine retreat. Carol Spencer seems to be the prime suspect. However, Carol knows she is innocent. But now the servants have disappeared, all the telephones have been removed and, as night falls, a killer is closer than she thinks.

The Confession

I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at one time a few years ago of a shadowy figure on my right, just beyond the field of vision, was later exposed as the result of a defect in my glas*ses. In the same way Maggie, my old servant, was during one entire summer haunted by church bells and considered it a personal summons to eternity until it was shown to be in her inner ear. Yet the Benton house undeniably made me uncomfortable. Perhaps it was because it had remained unchanged for so long. The old horsehair chairs, with their shiny mahogany frames, showed by the slightly worn places in the carpet before them that they had not deviated an inch from their position for many years. The carpets carpets that reached to the very baseboards and gave under one’s feet with the yielding of heavy padding beneath were bright under beds and wardrobes, while in the centers of the rooms they had faded into the softness of old tapestry. Maggie, I remember, on our arrival moved a chair from the wall in the library, and immediately put it back again, with a glance to see if I had observed her.

Sight Unseen

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

The Swimming Pool

Just as Lois Maynard is about to sell the family’s summer home, her domineering and troubled older sister, Judith, returns and a mysterious murder disrupts the household.

The Street of Seven Stars

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

Sight Unseen / The Confession

1921. Sight Unseen and the Confession by Rinehart, American writer of mystery novels known for their humor and ingenuity, begins: The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public; not so much for what they will add to the existing data on psychical research, for from that angle they were not unusual, but as yet another exploration into that still uncharted territory, the human mind. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Love Stories

Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. ‘Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says she ‘has been and continues to be’ the most important American woman mystery writer. ‘ She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of sixteen, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. During the stock market crash of 1903 Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing as a way to earn income. In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Her other works include The After House 1914, Kings, Queens and Pawns 1915, K 1915, Tish 1916 and Love Stories 1920.

Affinities

CONTENTS:I AffinitiesII THE FAMILY FRIENDIII CLARA’S LITTLE ESCAPADEIV THE BORROWED HOUSEV SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Crime Book

Contains four complete stories: ‘The After House,’ ‘The Buckled Bag,’ ‘Locked Doors,’ ‘The Red Lamp.’

The Bat

The Bat A remote country house filled with suspects, a forbidden romance, a cache of hidden money and a mysterious killer known only as The Bat
. ‘You’ve got to get him, boys get him or bust!’ said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant ‘resignation’ for the police chief, return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for them they knew it, and, knowing it, could summon no gesture of bravado to answer their chief’s. Gunmen, thugs, hijackers, loft robbers, murderers, they could get them all in time but they could not get the man he wanted. ‘Get him to hell with expense I’ll give you carte blanche but get him!’ said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best private detective firm in the country. The man on the other side of the desk, man hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthhound without a peer, threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness. ‘It isn’t the money, Mr. De Courcy I’d give every cent I’ve made to get the man you want but I can’t promise you results for the first time in my life.’

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