This is a free book I got on my Nook Tablet. I put off reading it for quite some time, thinking that it might not be very good. It was a different, maybe less polished book, but better than many others I have read. It is a historical novel which takes place during WWI, and tells the story of one ...
I have always enjoyed reading Mary Roberts Rinehart's mysteries. This one is quite humorous. Enjoyable read. The time period of the story is early 1900's. She mentioned Women's Suffrage in part of her story telling but it's not about that. I'm glad that I'm able to cook, dress myself etc., witho...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Report: Poor Carol Spencer. She has a tiresome semi-invalid mama, a married older sister in love with her own comfort, a war hero brother who, despite being 10 years her elder acts like a schoolboy, and a dead body. Of her brother's previous unknown trollop. Oh, also ...
Although her name may not resonate with the public today as much as it did a century ago, Mary Roberts Rinehart has most certainly left her mark on modern-day fiction. The originator of the so-called "Had I But Known" school of detective writing, Rinehart was, for many years, the most highly paid...
This story is set in the period just before and during the U.S. becoming involved in the First World War (1916-1918), and the place is probably Pittsburg. The danger in the title can refer to the war, to the changing social norms, and to actions different characters take that endanger either thei...
I fell in love with this author because of the "Tish" stories, but disappointingly, most of her other books are mysteries and very similar to each other. (The main character is usually the same spunky single woman, presumably the author loosely disguised.) The three "old" ladies (Tish and her two...