Mary Roberts Rinehart

Washington, D.C.-based attorney Lawrence Blakely has been asked by his partner to deliver some important documents to a client in Pittsburgh. In the course of his return trip, the occupant of the train berth opposite his - the lower ten, which Blakely was supposed to have taken - is savagely murdered. Was Blakely the intended victim, and did the crime have something to do with his briefcase full of vital evidence? When the murder weapon turns up underneath...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie,[1] although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922. Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school...

Tish Carberry, Aggie, and Lizzie embark on three more outrageous adventures in More Tish. After successfully taking on a band of train bandits, the women return home and search for ways to help with the war effort-a search that ultimately takes them to the battlefields of Europe, much to the chagrin of the military. More Tish is the third book in the Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories "The Cave on Thunder Cloud," "Tish Does Her Bit," and...

A young nurse in a Pittsburgh hospital is drawn to a doctor on staff. But she also finds herself embroiled in an intrigue surrounding her mysterious boarder, a man who calls himself K. This 1915 suspense-romance is based on the author's experience as nurse.

Bab, seventeen, tells her story in the form of school papers and diary entries. Her adventures and comments, resulting from her inability to be a debutante because of her young age, are laugh out loud funny. Rinehart was known for humor as well as mystery during her lifetime, and this 1916 romp showcases her skill in both areas.

When the owner of a popular health spa dies, a mysterious stranger is enlisted to impersonate the heir and fulfill the odd contents of the will. Then the real heir turns up... This 1912 mystery-romance-farce has all the ingredients that make "the queen of the thriller" a fan favorite to this day.

In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday Evening Post. This collection of her writing encompasses her observations on her travels-from being received by King Albert in Belgium and recording his first authorized statement on the war, to meeting Winston Churchill, to traveling to the English and French front lines as the first correspondent permitted there.

Tish Carberry and her spinster-friends Aggie and Lizze are at it again. From unknowingly backing-and then winning-crooked motorcar races to subsidizing an exploitive émigré and his bride to joining the Simple Life movement and taking up residence in the woods, life is never dull for the three women and their associates. Tish is the second book in Mary Roberts Rinehart's Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories "Mind Over Motor," "Like a Wolf...