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The third of Mary Roberts Rinehart's classic "Tish" stories,
reprinted in facsimile.
The third of Mary Roberts Rinehart's classic "Tish" stories,
reprinted in facsimile.
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The Great Mistake
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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The Bat (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood
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R408
Discovery Miles 4 080
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Mystery Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 3 female
Scenery: 2 Interiors
In this popular American mystery play, incident is piled on
incident with skill and plausibility, and it is impossible to know
who the real criminal is until the final curtain. This thriller
revolves around Cornelia Van Gorder, a maiden lady of sixty, who
rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She
is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to
move. Then it is discovered that a large sum is missing from the
dead man's bank and it is suspected that, far from being dead, he
stole the money, hid it in a secret chamber in his house and is
only waiting for a chance to sneak back to get it. Four others are
after the money: the bank cashier who is wrongfully accused of
taking it, a detective engaged by Miss Van Gorder to clear up the
mystery, a doctor friend and supposed confederate of the missing
banker and The Bat, a notorious thief who has long eluded the
police. This genuine thriller is guaranteed to divert any
audience.
"The lure of the high places is in your blood. The call of the
mountains is a real call. The veneer, after all, is so thin. Throw
off the impedimenta of civilization, the telephones, the silly
conventions, the lies that pass for truth. Go out to the West. Ride
slowly, not to startle the wild things. Throw out your chest and
breathe; look across green valleys to wild peaks where mountain
sheep stand impassive on the edge of space. Let the summer rains
fall on your upturned face and wash away the memory of all that is
false and petty and cruel. Then the mountains will get you. You
will go back. The call is a real call." So wrote Mary Roberts
Rinehart in her famous travelogue, Through Glacier Park, first
published in 1916, as the already famous mystery writer introduced
readers to recently minted national park and to the scenic wonders
of Montana and to the adventures to be found there. Howard Eaton,
an intrepid guide who had become known for his Yellowstone
experience, had convinced Rinehart to make the trek to the West.
Traveling three hundred miles on horseback with a group of more
than forty assorted tourists of all shapes and sizes, she took in
her fellow travelers, the scenery, and the travel itself with all
the style and aplomb and humor of the talented fiction writer and
journalist she was-and her words remain fresh and entertaining to
this day.
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Tenting Tonight (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Foreword by Rick Rinehart
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R278
R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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One year after her successful trip across Glacier National Park
with Howard Eaton, chronicled in Through Glacier Park, mystery
novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart was back in the saddle, heading into
the rugged Western portion of the park with her family and ready
for more adventure. She wrote, looking at the daunting road ahead,
"But all this was before us then. We only knew it was summer, that
the days were warm and the nights cool, that the streams were full
of trout, that such things as telegraphs and telephones were
falling far in our rear, and that before us was the Big Adventure."
Rinehart's humor and enthusiasm about her summer-long camping
adventure through the Rocky Mountains and Cascades is full of the
newness of the experience, the wonders of the relatively unexplored
park, and the same wonders that inspire visitors today are still
fresh for a modern audience. With a foreword by her grandson, Rick
Rinehart, this edition is a classic to be enjoyed by a new
generation.
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The Out Trail (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Foreword by Rick Rinehart
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R305
Discovery Miles 3 050
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From "Roughing it with the Men" to "Below the Border in Wartime"
Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features seven tales from her
adventures in the West from fishing at Puget Sound to hiking the
Bright Angel trail at the Grand Canyon. Though she was best known
at the time for her mystery novels, Rinehart's travel writing,
starting with her 1915 travels to the then young Glacier National
Park, offers observations and insights into the fun and
difficulties of early twentieth-century travel and her fellow
travelers with humor and clarity of detail that makes them vivid
for today's travelers.
In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart
traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday
Evening Post. This collection of her writing encompasses her
observations on her travels-from being received by King Albert in
Belgium and recording his first authorized statement on the war, to
meeting Winston Churchill, to traveling to the English and French
front lines as the first correspondent permitted there. Rinehart's
book was a humanitarian plea to Americans to join the war effort
three years before the American Expeditionary Force set sail for
Europe, an unpopular view vindicated by subsequent events.
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The Great Mistake
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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R725
R617
Discovery Miles 6 170
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The Red Lamp (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Introduction by Otto Penzler
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R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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The Wall (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Introduction by Otto Penzler
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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The Album (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Series edited by Otto Penzler
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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1928. Rinehart, American writer of mystery novels known for their
humor and ingenuity, begins Two Flights Up: Answering the front
door at the Bayne house was a lengthy matter. The postman had
learned this long ago, and now he merely laid the mail in the
vestibule and went away. First, Mrs. Bayne would look in the old
reflecting mirror which still hung from her bedroom window and take
note of the ringer. Then she would whisper cautiously over the
stair rail: It's the milk bill. I'm not in. Or, as had been
happening more and more frequently for the last six months: It's
Furness, Holly. Come right up, and I'll send down your Aunt
Margaret to receive him. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing.
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Miss Pinkerton (Paperback)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Introduction by Carolyn Hart
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R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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K (Hardcover)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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R992
Discovery Miles 9 920
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