Mary Roberts Rinehart: 121 books

Rinehart is often called the American Agatha Christie. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it," and also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery, heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed...

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.

This meticulously edited Rinehart-Mysteries collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Series: The Circular Staircase The Bat Tish Carberry Series: The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Three Pirates of Penzance That Awful...

Over 30 mystery books in one collection with active table of contents.Authors include:Agatha ChristieMary Roberts RinehartG.K. ChestertonGaston LerouxArthur Doyle

There’s been an awful murder at Elizabeth Bell’s otherwise quiet household in this classic mystery from the author of The Yellow Room. Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working...

FOR KING AND COUNTRY March in England is spring. Early in the month masses of snowdrops lined the paths in Hyde Park. The grass was green, the roads hard and dry under the eager feet of Kitchener's great army. For months they had been drilling, struggling with the intricacies of a new career, working...

Murder visits a seaside mansion in this gothic mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie. 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...

Three tales from a mystery master whose “literary distinction lies in the combination of love, humor and murder that she wove into her tales” (The New York Times). The Episode of the Wandering Knife: What’s a mother to do? When her daughter-in-law is slashed to death, the first thing...

By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know. Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me. Perhaps, coming of a family...

Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random, to right and left, was trivial and distracted.

An infamous thief hides in the countryside—where cunning Cornelia Van Gorder picks up the trail—in a mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. For months, the city has lived in fear of the Bat. A master criminal hindered by neither scruple nor fear, he has stolen over one...