Mary Roberts Rinehart
1) Album
Crescent Place was once a peaceful country green surrounded by five tasteful suburban houses and populated by polite, responsible citizens. But as the city enveloped it, the residents built a gate to keep the world out. With each passing year,...
In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters, Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society in the small town of Beverly, she has a table long enough to seat one hundred, and she keeps an iron grip on the guest list. Her right-hand woman is Pat Abbott, a local girl who...
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Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant, finds himself facing several problems: not only anarchism and German sabotage, but also the
...7) The bat
When Miss Cornelia Van Gorder takes a house for the summer, she and her guests suddenly find themselves the targets of a costumed criminal known only as "The Bat." Intent on uncovering the location of a cache of riches supposedly hidden in Van Gorder's rental house, The Bat risks everything to seize the fortune before being discovered.
The Bat was originally an enormously successful stage play adapted by novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart from
...The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of '29, when Lois and Judith's father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime...
The spirited and headstrong spinster is not easily fazed, until one stormy night when she stumbles on a corpse. She musters all her nerves to play the vicious...