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Two flights up Two flights up Mary Roberts Rinehart A boarder comes to live with three women and finds them frighteningly strange From the outside, it seems like the three women of the Bayne house are frozen in time. There is Mrs. Bayne, an aging wid… OL137361W
The wall The wall Mary Roberts Rinehart A murder mystery among aristocrats in New England, first published in 1938. OL137362W
The album The album Mary Roberts Rinehart The Halls, Lancasters, Talbots, Wellingtons, and Daltons--five close-knit and well-to-do families living on exclusive Crescent Place--retreat into terrified paranoia when first old Mrs. Lancaster is … OL137363W
The Red Lamp The Red Lamp Mary Roberts Rinehart Inheriting an isolated lakeside estate that is shrouded in ghost stories, skeptical William Porter and his wife are astonished when they are beckoned by a shadowy apparition and wonder if a ghost or … OL137367W
The Yellow Room The Yellow Room Mary Roberts Rinehart Upon reopening her summer home in Maine, twenty-four-year-old Carol Spencer finds a charred corpse in a linen closet, and when Carol becomes the police's prime suspect, she attempts to clear her name… OL137369W
The swimming pool The swimming pool Mary Roberts Rinehart 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 p… OL137375W
When a Man Marries When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart A bestseller in 1910, When a Man Marries tells what happens when a man tries to hide the fact that he is divorced by taking on a temporary wife for a dinner party. A riveting blend of comedy and myst… OL137382W
The Bat The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart Intrigued by her isolated country mansion's many mysteries, old Miss Cornelia longs to play detective, and neither death threats nor unearthly sights and sounds are going to dissuade her OL137388W
The Breaking Point The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart Heaven and earth," sang the tenor, Mr. Henry Wallace, owner of the Wallace garage. His larynx, which gave him somewhat the effect of having swallowed a crab-apple and got it only part way down, protr… OL137390W
The Amazing Interlude The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American author of hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Some of her very successful books and plays, such as "The Bat" (1920) w… OL137391W
The Man in Lower Ten The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart What starts out at as a simple train ride for Lawrence Blakely soon turns disastrous. The attorney-at-law is hand delivering decisive documents in a criminal case, and finds himself on the other side… OL137395W
The Circular Staircase The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 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 my… OL137396W
Haunted lady Haunted lady Mary Roberts Rinehart The Fairbanks curse... When Hilda Adams came to the Fairbanks' mansion as nurse/companion to old Eliza Fairbanks, she was warned that Eliza was prey to sick fancies...insane fears. But soon Hil… OL15396831W
Episode of the wandering knife Episode of the wandering knife Mary Roberts Rinehart The stabbing death of her sister-in-law leaves young socialite Judy Shepard scratching her head over the seemingly nonexistant motive, and the murder weapon, which keeps disappearing and reappearing … OL15407236W
The state vs. Elinor Norton The state vs. Elinor Norton Mary Roberts Rinehart The state has accused beautiful young Elinor Norton of murder, and she refuses to mount a defense. Guilt is written all over her elegant features, but her childhood best friend refuses to believe it … OL15421799W
The great mistake The great mistake Mary Roberts Rinehart Love was the furthest thing from Patricia Abbott's mind when she met Tony Wainwright. Though he was heir to the Wainwright fortune and the magnificent family mansion known as the Cloisters, the rumor… OL16087190W
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection Famous Plays of Crime and Detection Emlyn Williams,Willard, John,Elmer Rice,William Gillette,Avery Hopwood,Abbott, George,Van Henry Cartmell,Philip Dunning,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Bennett Cerf,Bayard Veiller,Patrick Hamilton,Jeffrey Dell,G.M. Cohan,R.C. Megrue,Edward Chodorov Sherlock Holmes, by William Gillette. Within the law, by Bayard Veiller. Seven keys to Baldpate, by G.M. Cohan. On trial, by Elmer Rice. Under cover, by R.C. Megrue. The thirteenth chair, b… OL6928977W