The Greatest Murder Mysteries

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Mary Roberts Rinehart's thriller novels and crime stories. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.  
Content:  
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 Night
Tish: 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
Novels:
The Man in Lower Ten
The Window at the White Cat
The Case of Jennie Brice
The After House
K.
Long Live the King!
The Amazing Interlude
The Breaking Point
Short Stories:
Locked Doors
Sight Unseen
The Confession
The Valley of Oblivion
Kings, Queens, and Pawns – Autobiography 

Genres: Mystery

2947 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 2, 2018

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

[Caitlin]

The longest book I’ve ever read. Some of the stories were caught in their time but others, especially the stories set during WW1 were powerful. I think I skipped one of the stories - the tome IS exceptionally long. But the most fascinating section was the author’s writings from the front lines in Belgium and France during WW1. She was a war correspondent and her interactions were echoed in her stories. It took me most of the year to finish this book and now I want to learn more about the author and the first world war. Still didn’t find the story in which the butler did it.

[claudia ruddy]

Many hours of pleasure

This is a very comprehensive collection ranging from her "had we but known " thrillers to the really funny Trish stories and a factual description of the author's experiences at the Western Front. Also a couple of melodramatic romances which I never thought she would write. Great buy.

[Jan Blazanin]

I read these novels as a kid when the local library carried very few books for preteens. My grandmother loved them, and I read and loved them too. When I saw the complete collection was available, I bought it and read THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, which was Rinehart’s most well-known novel. I was disappointed to discover that the story didn’t hold up over time. The privilege and undercurrent of racism were enough to keep me from exploring the other stories in the collection. I’m grateful that these books were available when I was young. They contributed to my life long love of reading. They’re not for me now.

[Mary Beth]

Old fashioned, but good. I like to read about how people thought and acted in the past from someone who was writing at that time.