The Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Book: The Circular Staircase/ The Man in Lower Ten/ The Case of Jennie Brice

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This carefully crafted "The Collected Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
The Circular Staircase
The Bat
Tish Carberry
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry
Three Pirates of Penzance
That Awful Night
The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
Mind over Motor
Like a Wolf on the Fold
The Simple Lifers
Tish's Spy
My Country Tish of Thee—
More Tish
The Cave on Thundercloud
Tish Does Her Bit
Salvage

The Man in Lower Ten
The Window at the White Cat
When a Man Marries
Where There's a Will
The Case of Jennie Brice
The Street of Seven Stars
The After House
K.
Bab, a Sub-Deb
Long Live the King!
The Amazing Interlude
The Breaking Point
Dangerous Days
A Poor Wise Man
Short
Love Stories
Twenty-Two
Jane
In the Pavilion
God's Fool
The Miracle
"Are We Downhearted? No!"
The Game
Affinities and Other Stories
Affinities
The Family Friend
Clara's Little Escapade
The Borrowed House
Sauce for the Gander
Locked Doors
Sight Unseen
The Confession
The Truce of God
The Valley of Oblivion

Through Glacier Park in 1915
Tenting Tonight

Oh Well You Know How Women Are – Isn't That Just Like a Man!
Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls
Kings, Queens, and Pawns – Autobiography

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

442 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Mysteries of the well-known American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart include The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Door (1930).

People often called this prolific author the American version of Agatha Christie. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it," though the exact phrase doesn't appear in her works, and she invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.

Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues, and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). Critics most appreciated her murder mysteries.

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Reviews

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

a delightful author who deserves to be remembered

Mary Roberts Rinenart was famous in her day, and deservedly so. Her writing style and technique is familiar yet highly personalized. Her characters are fun and more well drawn out than those created by Christie. This edition has some typo issues but is an exceptional bargain nevertheless. All the entries here deserve a read, particularly the Tish Carbury series.

[Ann Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Bat is an interesting mystery that plays out like a live version of “CLUE” set in the 1920’s. Miss Cornelia Van Gorder, a wealthy spinster rents a summer mansion in an isolated area of the New York countryside. She soon finds herself facing off with a mysterious robber and killer known as “The Bat”. Strange events and haunting occurrences plague the country mansion until Miss Cornelia confronts the man known as “The Bat”.

Definitely this would make an excellent play with lots of interesting characters filled with action and shenanigans all taking place within the country mansion. I learned that this was a play after reading the book.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good way to spend an evening. Each mystery is short (around 100 pages), featuring the 'had-I-but-known' hallmark of Roberts' writing. A little dated; these were written in the early 1900's. I found these to be a fun read.

[Lisa T. Ungerer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two old fashioned mysteries

Reinhardt was familiar to me but this was the first Bentley. Both books hark back to 19th Century themes. A bit old fashioned but cozy.

[Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a slapdash publication of a writer I usually enjoy. Do yourself a favor and get her books separately.