Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cover artist: Victor Kalin
Yours for: best offer
"Mrrowr"
"Hello?"
"Meow?"
"Uh, I'm calling about the antique phone you advertised in the paper?"
"[purrrr]"
"Is this Rinehart?"
[My wife thought this was a book about a cat named "Rinehart," by a woman named Mary Roberts — a reasonable inference, I say]
Page 123~ (from "Sight Unseen")
Of Elinor Wells I have only my wife's verdict, and I have found that, as is the way with many good women, her judgments of her own sex are rather merciless.
~RP
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I thought the same thing as your wife - or maybe this was one of those pet detective novels, like so: http://tinyurl.com/yjvlkvt. In a way, I'm terribly disappointed that it's not.
ReplyDeleteI think I had a collection of her stories: The Best of TISH. Dated, but fun. Not a bad writer, but more of the "Saturday Evening Post" genre.
ReplyDeleteM.R.R. was a writer in the "woman in peril/had I but known what awaited me" genre. She was tremendously popular in her time, but I wonder if any of her books are still in print.
ReplyDeleteThat cat is creepin' me out!
As it turns out, I'm reading a Mary Roberts Rinehart book right now. I actually enjoy her stories, which aren't always mysteries. Can't say as to whether she's still in print or not as these are ebooks I'm reading.
ReplyDeleteI thought that same thing, that Rinehart was the title. Love the cat answering the phone convo :)
ReplyDeleteFind "The Simple Lifers"--and then check the pub date. The Hippies didn't invent it...
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