Sarah Gittings, Elizabeth Bell’s family nurse, has just been brutally murdered. But all thoughts of a homicidal maniac running amok are banished when the evidence reveals that Sarah actually knew and trusted her murderer. Now, Elizabeth Bell is about to discover that her staid and orderly household harbors more than one suspect with a motive – and unfortunately, more than one victim.
My favorite Rinehart My favorite Mary Roberts Rinehart book because I love the tone and personality of the middle aged spinster who is the chief narrator, with her social and personal conventions and ethical challenges as the story unfolds. I get so drawn into her character and her interactions with her family because other than being a good mystery, it is a wonderful period piece that takes those of us who have never lived as the upper class (who never stay at hotels unless out of dire necessity) into the tightly…
Another classic from a great mystery writer. Mary Roberts Rinehart was the American Agatha Christie. Both were great mystery writers. While Christie was justifibly famous for her ingeneous plots, in my opinion Rinehart was the better writer. Furthermore, Rinehart had an uncanny ability to creat and sustain throughout each of her books an atmosphere not merely of suspence but of foreboding. Although reading a Rinehart novel is great fun, it is also rather scary. Her classic story The Door is no exception. If you like well-written mystery…
Excellent MRR story My only complaint with this book is that once they reveal the murderer the story just ends and I was left trying to fit that person into everything that had happened. It seemed to me that in many instances he would have had to be in two places at once. Other than that, this is a typical MRR story. The older woman in the huge house, the young girl relative, several other relatives and some of them not very nice. Servants, lawyers, doctors, etc. The gang is all here so to speak. Ms Rinehart…