Two new eBooks from Mary Roberts Rinehart!
We’ve just added two classic novels by Mary Roberts Rinehart to our ever-expanding eBook collection! The addition of 
The Man in Lower Ten and The After House brings our list of books by “the American Agatha Christie” up to a whopping twenty! Both new additions have been professionally proofread and formatted to ensure readability on any device, and are accompanied by new introductions by Otto Penzler.
In The Man in Lower Ten, a happy bachelor finds his cheerful life disrupted when his law partner asks him to deliver legal documents to a client in Pittsburgh. In the course of the trip—which lasts just one night—the man winds up in the wrong berth, falls in love, and gets accused of murder. The book was the first detective novel to appear on a bestseller list, and has continued to captivate readers ever since.
In The After House, a medical student joins the crew of a private yacht, expecting to see the world while swabbing the deck. But when a murder takes place during the voyage, the young man becomes far more engrossed in playing detective. Suspicious of everyone on board, he’s finds himself in the middle of the ocean while lost in a sea of doubt.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American writer, considered to be the inventor of the “Had-I-But-Known” school of mystery writing. She wrote hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels. Her costumed supercriminal, “the Bat,” was cited by Bob Kane as an inspiration for his Batman. Check out Rinehart’s author page here.
