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.Īmong 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.
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. 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. Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) was one of the United States’s most popular early mystery authors. In a family with a history of tragedy, a chilling new chapter is about to be written. Soon, a woman is found dead in the pool-a stranger who bears a shocking resemblance to Judith. Terrified of an unnamed threat, she nails her windows shut and locks the door. To stave off a nervous breakdown, Judith moves in with her kid sister.
She is about to encounter a mystery of her own. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose nerves are beginning to fray, while Lois still lives in the dilapidated old mansion, writing mystery novels to pay the bills. But after the crash of '29, when Lois and Judith's father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime retreat from the world. The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool.
The New York Times bestseller from the author known as the American Agatha Christie.
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