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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was the most beloved and best-selling mystery writer in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Pittsburgh to the owner of a sewing machine factory, she wrote fiction in her spare time until a stock market crash sent her and her husband into debt, forcing her to lean on her writing to pay the bills. Her first two novels, The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Man in Lower Ten (1909), established her as a bright young talent, and it wasn’t long before she was a regular on bestseller lists.Among her dozens of novels were The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) and The Bat (1932), which was among the inspirations for Bob Kane’s Batman. Today, Rinehart is often called an American Agatha Christie, even though she was much more popular than Christie during her heyday.

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was the most beloved and best-selling mystery writer in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Pittsburgh to the owner of a sewing machine factory, she wrote fiction in her spare time until a stock market crash sent her and her husband into debt, forcing her to lean on her writing to pay the bills. Her first two novels, The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Man in Lower Ten (1909), established her as a bright young talent, and it wasn’t long before she was a regular on bestseller lists.Among her dozens of novels were The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) and The Bat (1932), which was among the inspirations for Bob Kane’s Batman. Today, Rinehart is often called an American Agatha Christie, even though she was much more popular than Christie during her heyday.

    Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart

    • Miss Pinkerton

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Carolyn Hart

      Paperback, 2019

      After a suspicious death at a country mansion, a brave nurse joins the household to see behind closed doors

    • The Red Lamp

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      A professor tries to stop a murder spree, uncertain whether the culprit is man or ghost.

    • The Haunted Lady

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2020

      Someone’s trying to kill the head of the Fairbanks estate, and only her nurse can protect her.

    • The Haunted Lady

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2020

      Someone’s trying to kill the head of the Fairbanks estate, and only her nurse can protect her.

    • The Wall

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2021

      A murder at a seaside estate brings a wealthy family’s buried conflicts to the surface.

    • The Wall

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2021

      A murder at a seaside estate brings a wealthy family’s buried conflicts to the surface

    • The Album

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2023

      In this twisty whodunnit from "the grand dame of American crime fiction" (CrimeReads), the murder of a wealthy widow brings the secrets of her aristocratic neighbours to light

    • The Album

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2023

      In this twisty whodunnit from "the grand dame of American crime fiction" (CrimeReads), the murder of a wealthy widow brings the secrets of her aristocratic neighbors to light

    • The Great Mistake

      Mary Roberts Rinehart

      Paperback, 2024

      Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy woman’s mansion in this mystery from one of the best-selling authors of the 20th century

    • The Great Mistake

      Mary Roberts Rinehart

      Hardback, 2023

      Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy woman’s mansion in this mystery from one of the bestselling authors of the 20th century.

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