K.

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Format: Paperback Book
Pages: 312
Illustrations and Photos: 4
ISBN 978-0-9740636-5-2
Price: $15.95

When Sidney takes K Le Moyne in as a boarder, her future becomes irretrievably entwined with the mystery that enshrouds his past. Lies and intrigue begin to surround Sidney as she innocently proceeds in a career that is considered, for a woman, a courageous venture.

Training as a nurse in the pre-World War I era, Sydney is witness to violence and mishap in the hospital, just as Mary Roberts Rinehart was herself when training to become a nurse in Pittsburgh. K falls in love with Sydney while the mystery unwinds to determine who Sydney loves and who is responsible for murder at the hospital.

With K., Mary Roberts Rinehart weaves a mystery around the characters on a Street; which could be any street - especially in Pittsburgh. Not only a mystery, K is a romantic novel packed with characters drawn from the saga of life on the edge of industrial, Victorian, Pittsburgh from an author not afraid to write from her own experience. Rinehart writes with veracity of the hospital life that she herself knew, through Sidney's experience while training as a nurse. A bit more serious than her other novels, she considered it her best.

K. was on the the Publishers Weekly list of best selling novels in the United States in 1915.

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