American Mystery
Mary
Roberts Rinehart, a great American mystery writer, was not only the highest paid author
of the first half of the 20th century, but she was also a master
of mystery with a great sense of humor to add that comic relief
needed when dealing with death, murder, and mayhem.
Mary Roberts Rinehart was trained as a nurse in one of the first nursing schools in the country in Pittsburgh, PA. During her internship she worked in a city hospital on the edge of a very rough area of mills and taverns with associated vices. As a young girl, who left her home to pursue this career, she was exposed to many things in the hospital that were never spoken of in her Victorian home.
She wrote many books including: The Man in Lower Ten, The Window at the White Cat, The Amazing Interlude, Dangerous
Days, A Poor Wise Man, The Breaking Point, Lost Ecstasy, The Door
, and The Doctor; all best sellers. The "Tish" series are some of Roberts best selling books today.
When Sidney takes
K Le Moyne in as a border, 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.
With K.,
Mary Roberts Rinehart weaves a mystery around the characters on a Street; which could be any street - especially in Pittsburgh. K. is not only a mystery, but 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.
In our version of K
we recreated an illustration that adorned each page
of the original book. We also restored the original
illustrations to produce a copy unlike others of the
same title.
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Bab, only twenty months younger than
her sister, the official debutante, rebels against her
treatment by her family. Set during the pre-World War
I era, when women's roles were rapidly changing,
Bab determines to assert her independence through this
series of misadventures and mysteries.
"I am writing all of this as truthfully as I can. I am not defending myself.
What I did I was driven to, as any one can see. It takes
a real shock to make the average Familey wake up to
the fact that the youngest daughter is not the Familey
baby at seventeen. All I was doing was furnishing the
shock. If things turned out badly, as they did, it was
because I rather overdid the thing. That is all. My
motives were perfectly ireproachible." - Bab
And this Bab feels through all of her hilarious and
at times dangerous adventures to prove she is not just
a Sub-Deb. Written by that master of mystery and humor,
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Bab is a delightful combination
of both.
Bab:
A Sub-Deb is a hilarious must read
for any girl no matter how old. Parents, if you think
your kids today are getting into scrapes, read about
Bab in pre-World War I days and the grief she put her
parents through in her desire to be independent and
actually a "Deb" or debutante and not a sub-deb.
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