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B. J. Harrison Reads The Circular Staircase
Rachel Innes is a rich lady who has been taking care of her niece and nephew since their father died. The three of them decide to rent a house in the country and although everything seems to be alright in the beginning, strange events soon begin to occur. Her niece disappears then reappears a few days later. There is a murder they are involved in. They hear strange noises. Things fall down the stairs in the middle of the night. Will Rachel solve the mysteries and how will their summer end? Find out in 'The Circular Staircase'. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer who lived in the period 1876-1958. She wrote hundreds of short stories, novels and travelogues. She gained wide popularity with her detective stories and although her first mystery novel was published 12 years before Agatha Christie’s, Rinehart was often called the American Agatha Christie. Mary Rinehart is considered to have invented the 'Had I but known' way of mystery writing, which she used for the first time in her bestselling story 'The Circular Staircase'.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)
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Listen to Dangerous Days with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant, finds himself facing several problems: not only anarchism and German sabotage, but also the prospect of a deteriorating marriage, and of a son who all too often shares his mother's frivolous and essentially self-concerned point of view. How far will America's entry into the war change such views? What will it mean for Spencer, for his family, and for his business?
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Nicholas Clifford (Narrator)
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Kings, Queens, and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for her bestselling mystery novels such as The Circular Staircase published in 1907, earned a reputation as “the American Agatha Christie” through the success of her novels. Yet Rinehart was also a WWI correspondent. After convincing her editor at The Saturday Evening Post to send her to the Belgian front, and armed with letters of introduction, her status as a well-known writer and member of the American Red Cross, as well as plenty of fearless initiative, she became the first American to report from the front. In Kings, Queens and Pawns (1915) Rinehart records scenes of life at, and far from, the front: a baby whose legs were blown off, a young soldier rendered blind in battle sitting quietly as he listens to a recording of Madama Butterfly, the entire noncombatant population of a Belgian town homeless after relentless German-lead bombings, a queen overseeing her Needlework Guild. Anticipating the ultimately widely held view of the bloody and often futile conflict, Rinehart argues that the greatest treasures of the warring countries, the young soldiers fighting so valiantly in the prime of their lives, are mere pawns wasted and lost on the desolate battlefields.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Anne Marie Lewis (Narrator)
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Young Ralph Leslie longs for a long sea voyage, so he jumps at the chance to sign aboard a millionaire's yacht as steward to passengers lodged in its after house. His job is easy sailing, until the dream voyage suddenly becomes a nightmare of blood and terror when a killer strikes again and again.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Kristen Underwood (Narrator)
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Ralph Leslie absolutely loves his job as a steward on millionaire Marshall Turner's lavish super-yacht---that is, until a brutal killer starts murdering the crew. While the passengers panic, Leslie must try to stay alive long enough to catch the killer. ** Please contact member services for additional documents.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Rebecca Burns (Narrator)
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A killer has an axe to grind in this classic whodunit from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Circular Staircase and mystery-writing pioneer. Crescent Place was once a peaceful country green surrounded by five tasteful suburban houses and populated by polite, responsible citizens. But as the city enveloped it, the residents built a gate to keep the world out. With each passing year, the subdivision grew stranger and stranger-until it began to look like a time capsule of the 1890s. In these houses are a husband and wife who fight constantly, and another couple who hasn't spoken to each other in two decades. There is a widow in permanent mourning and a daughter whom the newspapers call psychotic. And there is a bedridden old woman who is about to be killed with an axe. When her murder shatters the quiet of the little enclave, the tabloids delight in trumpeting the neighborhood's peculiarities. But as the search for the killer intensifies, the area's strangest secrets have yet to be revealed.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Lucy Scott (Narrator)
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The Amazing Interlude [With eBook]
Set during World War I, The Amazing Interlude is a haunting romance and mystery story involving a young woman who joins the Red Cross, travels to Europe, and finds her life changed forever. ** Please contact member services for additional documents.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Shelly Frasier (Narrator)
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An older woman of the elite class has lots of money and abundant courage and determination. Miss Cornelia Van Gorder wants some adventure in her life, so she rents a large mansion to see what she can stir up. She moves in with her niece and an unpredictable Irish maid and is confronted by an embezzlement problem at the owner’s bank. But that’s just the beginning of troubles, because a murderous masked criminal known as the Bat is using the mansion as a hideout. All this becomes more than a mere summer vacation for Miss Cornelia during a stormy night when she more or less stumbles across a corpse, an apparent victim of the deadly Bat. In addition, her niece’s boyfriend is considered a suspect in the bank embezzlement case. This literary combination of events had actually begun as a play that evolved into novel form conceived by noted author Mary Roberts Rinehart. Her credentials for conceiving such a mystery with murderous mayhem resulted in her often being called “America’s Agatha Christie.” Let’s listen now to a story that contains some comedy in addition to its dire circumstances.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)
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The spirited spinster Miss Cornelia longs to play detective, and on a storm-swept night she gets her chance---and her turn at the vicious, elusive killer known as the Bat! ** Please contact member services for additional documents.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Shelly Frasier (Narrator)
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The blood-stained rope and towel, the stray slipper, the broken knife-and the disappearance of the lovely Jennie Brice-were enough to convince Mrs. Pittman that murder had been committed in her boarding house. The police, however, were another matter. Without a tangible body, there could be no official murder charge. Mrs. Pittman ran a respectable establishment and was not about to harbor a killer on the premises. If the police couldn't see what was in front of their noses, then she would have to take matters into her own hands. As the landlady, after all, she had the perfect excuse to do a little judicious snooping.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), C.M. Hebert (Narrator)
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"This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous." So begins The Circular Staircase, a book which has been hailed as the best novel by the most important American woman mystery writer of our time. Rachel Innes was relieved when Gertrude and Halsey arrived to keep their dear old aunt company and allow her the courtesy of a decent night's sleep. Unfortunately, the explosive sound of a revolver shot the next night shattered Rachel's hopes. And the body at the foot of the circular staircase ensured many sleepless nights to follow.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)
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Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, has barely settled in at the country house she has rented for the summer when a series of bizarre and violent events threaten to perturb her normally unflappable nature. A strange figure appears briefly in the twilight outside a window. At night, a rattling, metallic sound reverberates through dark halls, and-most disconcerting of all-the body of a strange man is found lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of a circular staircase. Before this spine-tingling tale ends, five connected deaths shatter the normally placid atmosphere of the vacation retreat. Rachel's devoted niece and nephew are among the prime suspects in one of the murders; stolen securities and a bank default threaten the young pair's financial security, and Aunt "Ray" ultimately fights for her life in an airless secret room.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Cathleen Fuller (Narrator)
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