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The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) Letitia,
Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into
scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster ladies? A
murder at a hospital, reuniting lovers, a mangy dog or does it have
fleas? The hilarious and often perilous adventures of Letitia Carberry. -
Summary by Sandra
The Amazing Interlude
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) It
is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is
sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby
afghan. Her beau’s name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that
is just perfect for two and he will soon propose to Sara Lee. But in
this play, the mise en scène is about to change. A fairyland
transformation will take place and Sara Lee will step into a new and
different story, where she is the princess in a forest of adventure.
There is a prince, too, whose name is Henri. He is as strange as the
forest itself. And then just as suddenly, the scene changes back and
Sara Lee is once again sitting alone by the fire, knitting socks for the
soldiers this time, and with a memory and a new stirring in her heart.
This is the story of Sara Lee’s amazing interlude. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Genre(s): General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
The Bat
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) The
novelization of the play of the same name that had an initial run of
867 shows on Broadway and has been performed all over the world and been
made into three movies over a span from 1926 to 1959. An intricate
mystery, with a wide cast of characters. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
The Breaking Point
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) Mary
Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be
called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the
end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful
doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth
Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself
honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In
particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory
prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been
reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what
today is called "repressed memory," as she takes Dick into his past,
and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct
about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a
clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made
her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth
century.(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Romance
The Case of Jennie Brice
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958)
The
flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious
clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder
has been committed at her boarding house. Jennifer Ladley aka Jennie
Brice is missing and with the help of Mr. Holcombe, a quirky gentleman
with a passion for mysteries, they embark on a quest for the truth
behind the disappearance of Jennie Brice. (summary by Wina Hathaway)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958)
Mary
Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular
mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and
includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious events,
ghostly apparitions, things that go bump in the night and murder.
(Summary by J. M. Smallheer)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
The Confession
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) Mary
Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the "Had I but known"
mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parsonage at Miss
Emily's request she soon came to regret it. Was the house haunted? Did
Miss Emily have a secret so terrible she would rather die than reveal
it? To find the answers you will need to listen. (Summary by Annise)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
Dangerous Days
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) 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 prospect of a
deteriorating marriage, and of a son who all too often shares his
mother's frivolous and essentially self-concerned point of view. How far
will America's entry into the war change such views? What will it mean
for Spencer, for his family, and for his business? (Summary by Nicholas
Clifford)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
The Man in Lower Ten
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958)
Someone
had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John
Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKnight's turn
to go, but he was bagging off because he wanted to spend the weekend
visiting Alison West in Richmond. And so his law partner, Lawrence
Blakeley, is left with no choice but to make the trip himself. All goes
well at first, but on the train home, Blakeley wakes to find that the
notes, along with his clothes, are missing from his sleeping berth. It
was an eventful night. In addition to the theft, there's been a murder
in the berth across, and when the weapon is found under Blakeley's
pillow, he becomes one of the prime suspects. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Genre(s): Detective Fiction, Romance
More Tish
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) Mary
Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish)
Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The
series led to a 1942 movie with Marjorie Main. This particular book, the
third in the series, was written after Mary's stint as a war
correspondent in Belgium during the first World War. Summary by ToddHW.
The Street of Seven Stars
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) Published
in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and
beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and
she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money and
return to the States, Harmony stays on in hopes of earning enough money
to continue her lessons. Along the way, she meets Peter Byrne, an
American doctor in Vienna following his dream to study surgery. Peter is
already watching over an orphan boy in a local hospital and now he
takes it upon himself to protect young Harmony from the unsavory side of
life in the big city. With life pressing in, Peter and Harmony each
must decide how much to sacrifice for the sake of their dreams - and for
each other. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Genre(s): Romance, Published 1900 onward
Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) This
is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart
(1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is
entitled Tenting To-night, which also deals with the Cascade
Mountains.). Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems,
travelogues and articles, though she is most famous for her mystery
stories. The region that became Glacier National Park was first
inhabited by Native Americans and upon the arrival of European
explorers, was dominated by the Blackfeet in the east and the Flathead
in the western regions. Summary by wikipedia and david wales.
Genre(s): Travel & Geography
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958) The story of three "middle aged ladies". Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. - Summary by Sandra
The Window at the White Cat
Mary Roberts RINEHART (1876 - 1958)
When
a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful
old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skills of
his friends the detective and the newspaperman to solve the puzzle of
The White Cat. That’s the name of a back-street political club serving
beers, political favors and, occasionally, murder. (Introduction by
Robert Keiper)