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(0)Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Language
English
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"This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous..."
Author
Pub. Date
1923
Physical Desc
x, 1 leaf, 11-246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From "Roughing it with the Men" to "Below the Border in Wartime" Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features seven tales from her adventures in the West from fishing at Puget Sound to hiking the Bright Angel trail at the Grand Canyon. Though she was best known at the time for her mystery novels, Rinehart's travel writing, starting with her 1915 travels to the then young Glacier National Park, offers observations and insights into the fun and difficulties...
3) The album
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A killer has an axe to grind in this classic whodunit from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Circular Staircase and mystery-writing pioneer.
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,...
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,...
4) The wall
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Language
English
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An unwelcome visitor arrives at a seaside home to find that death awaits her there The house called Sunset has been Marcia's summer home for her entire life. Both of her parents died there, and she and her brother spent their youth exploring its rambling hallways and seaside grounds. They love the old house, but Marcia's sister-in-law has never taken to it. Juliette loathes the sea, and soon comes to loathe her husband, as well. After they divorce,...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In a crumbling mansion, two sisters hide from the world, afraid for their lives 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 retreat from the world. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose...
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering a murdered body in her family's summer home in Maine, Carol Spencer becomes the main suspect in the crime and begins to fear for her life as her servants disappear, the telephones have been removed, and nighttime rapidly descends.
7) The red lamp
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After inheriting an old seaside house, a professor finds it haunted by supernatural mysteries Though he likes to joke about the spirit world, William Porter does not really believe in ghosts. As a professor, he cannot afford to take seriously that which goes bump in the night. But his wife, Jane, is prone to visions, like the one she had last summer about William's uncle Horace lying dead on the floor-a dream that came just hours before they got the...
10) The best of Tish
Author
Pub. Date
1955
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xv, 587 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1905 Rinehart entered a field exclusive to men: detective fiction. Now, nearly a century after she began her career, her celebrated mysteries are collected in one handsome volume. With a biographical portrait of Rinehart and an illuminating introduction to her writing and her times.
Author
Pub. Date
1947
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three American mystery stories with murder in each case.
Circular staircase. Rachel Innes leaves the security of her town house for the summer to lease Sunnyside, a barn-like country home with--it turns out--hidden rooms and other sinister features. The middle-aged spinister and her niece and nephew have barely moved in before the first of a series of spine-chilling events occur. A body is found at the foot of Sunnyside's circular staircase.
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