Lily Cardew, returning home from doing Red Cross work during the war, finds herself feeling restless and unable to fit back into the familiar but rather empty social life of her wealthy family. Looking to occupy herself and to assert ...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American author of hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Some of her very successful books and plays, such as 'The Bat' (1920) were adapted for movies. While many ...

A murder at a seaside estate brings a wealthy family’s buried conflicts to the surfaceMarcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family&rsqu...

Rachel Innes believes that her summer house in the Adirondacks is haunted. Her niece and nephew arrive one night for an unexpected visit and then, the next night, they find a body at the bottom of the circular staircase. However, what...

As America prepares for the Great War, steel magnate Clayton Spencer becomes increasingly aware of the shallowness of his wife and his widening distance from his son, Graham. Graham, who wants to enlist, struggles to overcome his moth...

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After a suspicious death at a country mansion, a brave nurse joins the household to see behind closed doors Miss Adams is a nurse, not a detective―at least, not technically speaking. But while working as a nurse, one does have the o...

It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle's home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau's name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that is just perfect for tw...

Sara Lee is a young woman who decides to serve in the Red Cross in Belgium during the Great War taking care of wounded soldiers. She raises a little money and starts a soup kitchen just behind the Belgian trenches. When a young allied...

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Dr. Dick Livingston has joined his uncle David in his general practice in small East Coast village. Dick is a quiet man with a mysterious past. Apparently, he can only remember the last ten years of his life. During his practice Dick ...

Mrs. Pittman's well-to-do Pittsburgh family didn't approve of her marriage, so the young bride moved away and lost touch with her relatives. Years later, she has returned to her native city as a widow and now runs a boarding house, on...

The Lower Ten is a berth on a train, and its occupant has been savagely murdered. Attorney Lawrence Blakely was supposed to have taken that berth ― was he the intended victim, and did the crime have something to do with his briefcas...

A professor tries to stop a murder spree, uncertain whether the culprit is man or ghost.An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Towers, the sea...

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