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  • TISH PLAYS THE GAME
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    When a friend comes to her with a problem, Tish springs into action—no matter how much trouble it's going to cause In the title tale of this collection by Mary Roberts Rinehart, after a long, chaotic life, Tish Carberry retires to her apartment, hoping for a bit of peace and quiet. But why, her friends wonder, does it sound like someone's practicing riflery in her living room? ...

    $119.00

  • NOMAD'S LAND
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A memoir of desert travel—by camel and horseback—from a beloved author An internationally renowned writer of mystery fiction, Mary Roberts Rinehart knows her way around an exotic setting. When faced with the Pyramids, the Nile, and the sprawling Egyptian desert in her own life, she does not fall in with the crowd of tourists waiting in line at the tombs of the Pharaohs. Instead...

    $119.00

  • THE ALBUM
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A killer has an axe to grind in this classic whodunit from the #1  New York Times–bestselling author of  The Circular Staircase and mystery-writing pioneer.   Crescent Place was once a peaceful country green surrounded by five tasteful suburban houses and populated by polite, responsible citizens. But as the city enveloped it, the residents built a gate to keep the world out. W...

    $119.00

  • THE BAT
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    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 million dollars and left at least six men dead. The police are helpless, the newspapers know...

    $119.00

  • THE DOOR
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    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 on her biography of a relative. When a young cousin comes to stay, life in the house become...

    $119.00

  • THE GREAT MISTAKE
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy woman's mansion in this mystery from a New York Times–bestselling author with ten million books in print. In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters, Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society in the small town of Beverly, she has a table long enough to seat one hundred, and she keeps an iron grip on the guest list. Her right-hand...

    $119.00

  • MARRIED PEOPLE
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Ten tales of married life: happy, sad, and blood-soaked Clarke Wellington supposes it's time he murdered his wife. Dolly isn't a promiscuous woman, and she isn't violent, but she is stingy, petty, and cruel, and she runs her household with a tyranny that has turned her husband into a mouse and her children into frightened little automatons. Of course, it's easy to make this kin...

    $119.00

  • THE RED LAMP
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A supernatural mystery set in an old seaside house from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie.   Though he likes to joke about the spirit world, William Porter does not really believe in ghosts. As a professor, he cannot afford to take seriously that which goes bump in the night. But his wife, Jane, is prone to visions, like the one she ...

    $149.00

  • THE ROMANTICS
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Stories of true romance, from youth to middle age and beyond An elderly couple sits on a park bench, murmuring compliments to each other, and passing gentle judgment on the crowds that pass them by. They are alone—no children, no friends, nothing but their memories to keep them company. Are they happy? Or is true love no longer enough to sustain them? While this couple sits on ...

    $119.00

  • THE STATE VS. ELINOR NORTON
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Though a woman has confessed to murder, her friend tries to piece together what really happened in a mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.   The state has accused beautiful young Elinor Norton of murder, and she refuses to mount a defense. Guilt is written all over her elegant features, but her childhood best friend refuses to believe it when Elinor confesses t...

    $119.00

  • TWO FLIGHTS UP
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A boarder comes to live with three women and finds them frighteningly strange From the outside, it seems like the three women of the Bayne house are frozen in time. There is Mrs. Bayne, an aging widow obsessed with propriety; her sister, Margaret, a spinster whose desperate loneliness is eating her from the inside out; and young Holly, a beautiful creature with a vibrancy that ...

    $119.00

  • THE WALL
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    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 exploring its rambling hallways and seaside grounds. They love the old house, but Marcia'...

    $164.00

  • THE YELLOW ROOM
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    An isolated country house sets the scene for a wartime mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie.   As far as Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol on the verge of spinsterhood ...

    $119.00

  • FAMILIAR FACES
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Circular Staircase explores domestic anguish and delight in this short story collection.   On a transatlantic voyage, a man fills with rage as his wife fusses over her makeup, filling their cramped cabin with powders, oils, and discarded clothes. It would be fine if he could open the porthole, but the porter has ordered it shut—le...

    $119.00

  • TISH MARCHES ON
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    The charmingly batty old maid is off to the coronation to save the king in this “hugely entertaining” novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).  A naive observer might not immediately see a connection between the newspaper accounts of a man found naked on a church steeple, a constable attacked from the sky, and a grocer assaulted by “...

    $119.00

  • ALIBI FOR ISABEL
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Nine short stories from one of the nation’s finest mystery authors When her husband demands a divorce, a young wife heads to Reno alone, leaving the baby with her husband and his new beloved, betting that a week trapped between his child and his mistress will make her hubby yearn for her return. By the sea, a hairdresser gets into mischief over a star sports fisherman. And in a...

    $119.00

  • THE SWIMMING POOL
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    Two reclusive sisters. A crumbling mansion. A dead doppelgänger. The New York Times bestseller from the author known as the American Agatha Christie.  The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of ’29, when Lois and Judith’s father killed himself to escape his debts, the family tur...

    $119.00

  • THE HILDA ADAMS MYSTERIES
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    #1 New York Times–Bestselling Author: Three witty whodunits from the Golden Age of mystery, featuring the crime-solving nurse nicknamed Miss Pinkerton . . . Miss Pinkerton A supposed suicide has the homicide squad suspicious, despite its locked-room location—so they ask nurse Hilda Adams to keep watch at the mansion while tending to the dead man’s bedridden aunt . . .    The Ha...

    $329.00

  • THE WINDOW AT THE WHITE CAT
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A missing person sets off the action in this classic whodunit from the bestselling mystery writer known as the American Agatha Christie.   In The Window at the White Cat, bumbling lawyer Jack Knox agrees to help a beautiful young woman find her missing father. But when the politician is found dead at a backstreet social club serving up beers and illegal favors, and Jack’s aunt ...

    $85.00

  • EPISODE OF THE WANDERING KNIFE
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    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 is to hide the hunting knife that’s sure to implicate her innocent son. But it doesn’t stay h...

    $229.00

  • MISS PINKERTON
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A locked-room murder keeps a nurse-turned-sleuth on guard—and will “keep the reader . . . shivering and guessing” in this Golden Age mystery (The New York Times).   If the dissolute nephew of elderly Juliet Mitchell committed suicide, then why has the Homicide Squad enlisted the help of nurse Hilda Adams at the Mitchell mansion? Because Inspector Patton has his doubts about Her...

    $229.00

  • THE HAUNTED LADY
    MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
    A dowager is being scared to death in this classic whodunit by a #1 New York Times–bestselling master who “helped the mystery series grow up” (The New York Times).   It’s enough to stop Eliza Fairbanks’s heart. At least that’s what the elderly widow claims is being done to her. First, someone unleashes a cloud of bats in her locked bedroom. When that doesn’t do the trick, next ...

    $229.00