Philadelphia socialite Sara Lee leaves behind her fiancé and her comfortable life to open a kitchen in England for soldiers fighting the Great War. When she meets the mysterious Belgian spy Henri, she finds her loyalties torn-as well as her heart. Rinehart's 1918 novel draws on her experiences as a war correspondent.

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.

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...

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...

Mrs. Pittman's well-to-do Pittsburgh family didn't approve of her marriage, so the young bride moved away and lost touch with her relatives. Years later, she has returned to her native city as a widow and now runs a boarding house, one of the only jobs available to respectable women in the early twentieth century. Rooms at Mrs. Pittman's place are cheap because of the annual floods from the Allegheny River, which inundate the building's basement and...

Like the best of Mary Roberts Rinehart's novels, A Poor Wise Man combines a number of literary elements -- romance, intrigue, and mystery -- which unfold against the backdrop of war and political unrest. Fans of historical romance and classic mystery will enjoy this read. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works...