Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Window at the White Cat (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 disappears, it looks like the daughter's fiancé may be guilty of more than winning her heart. A #1 New York Times-bestselling author with ten million books in print, Mary Roberts Rinehart crafted a career out of writing mysteries that set the stage for generations of writers to come. "[Rinehart's] literary distinction lies in the combination of love, humor and murder that she wove into her tales. . . . She helped the mystery story grow up."-The New York Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Seitenzahl: 129
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504062510
• Artikelnr.: 59192623

Autorenporträt

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was one of the United States's most popular early mystery authors. Born in Pittsburgh to a clerk at a sewing machine agency, Rinehart trained as a nurse and married a doctor after her graduation from nursing school. She wrote fiction in her spare time until a stock market crash sent her and her young husband into debt, forcing her to lean on her writing to pay the bills. Her first two novels, The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Man in Lower Ten (1909), established her as a bright young talent, and it wasn't long before she was one of the nation's most popular mystery novelists. Among her dozens of novels are The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911), which began a six-book series, and The Bat (originally published in 1920 as a play), which was among the inspirations for Bob Kane's Batman. Credited with inventing the phrase "The butler did it," Rinehart is often called an American Agatha Christie, even though she began writing much earlier than Christie, and was much more popular during her heyday.