The Street of Seven Stars (eBook, PDF) - Roberts Rinehart, Mary
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It is a story of growing love between a poor music student Harmony and doctor Peter Byrne. Since her friends have left Vienna to return to America, Scatch to marry her sweathart, and the big soprano because she isn't good enough, Harmony has a home problem. She has to leave their apartment and search for a cheap room. Finally she finds an affordable room in pension Schwarz, where she meets Peter and dr Anna Gates. Together they decide to take an apartment and all is well to the moment Anna has to go back to America. Anyway, this is one of her non-mysteries, here in pre-World War I Vienna. The…mehr

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It is a story of growing love between a poor music student Harmony and doctor Peter Byrne. Since her friends have left Vienna to return to America, Scatch to marry her sweathart, and the big soprano because she isn't good enough, Harmony has a home problem. She has to leave their apartment and search for a cheap room. Finally she finds an affordable room in pension Schwarz, where she meets Peter and dr Anna Gates. Together they decide to take an apartment and all is well to the moment Anna has to go back to America. Anyway, this is one of her non-mysteries, here in pre-World War I Vienna. The main plot/romance between a budding violinist and a student doctor is OK, at best, but there are all sorts of supporting characters that make this worth reading - a dying boy, a guard, a student's mistress, a Bulgarian spy, a female doctor beginning her spinsterhood...
Autorenporträt
American author Mary Roberts Rinehart, sometimes known as the American Agatha Christie, was born on August 12, 1876, and died on September 22, 1958. In 1908, she released The Circular Staircase, her debut mystery book, which included the ""had I but known"" narrative tense. In her book The Door, she is credited with creating the ""the butler did it"" story device (1930). Mary Ella Roberts, who is now known as Rinehart, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Allegheny City. She published The Circular Staircase in 1907, the book that made her a household name. She made articles for The Saturday Evening Post that influenced middle-class American taste and behavior. Glen Osborne Borough now has a Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park there. Sometimes, Rinehart's business success clashed with her responsibilities as a wife and mother in the home. During World War I, she worked as a war journalist for The Saturday Evening Post, one of her many adventurous pursuits. Rinehart underwent a radical mastectomy as a result of her breast cancer. Her 25-year Filipino cook employee attempted to stab her with knives in 1947. She passed away at the age of 82 at her New York City residence at 630 Park Avenue