![]() ![]() Her leading lady was inevitably a woman of a certain age with a comfortable income, with the notable exception of her Miss Pinkerton series. Rinehart generally added realism in her depiction of contemporary life, with many different classes, corruption high and low, and a great diversity of characters. Most of her fiction included startling plot twists. Her stories combine adventure, love, ingenuity, and humor in a style that is distinctly her own. Mary Roberts Rinehart was a well-known mystery and romance writer. Her family experienced financial difficulties, which surprised me, as I’ll explain a little later. In case you aren’t familiar with Rinehart, she was born in 1876, in Pittsburgh and died in 1958. This book, however, was just a little too too, if you know what I mean. I read a couple of her books in the past few years and enjoyed them for what they are – old-fashioned, demure, cozy mysteries with a likeable heroine narrating the story. My mother introduced me to her books back in my pre-teen days – that is what passed as YA literature back then. ![]() ![]() When I saw a Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel on Net Galley, I couldn’t believe my luck. After the last book, I did promise that I would cleanse my palate with something truly classic and well-written. ![]()
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