The Bat, with eBook

Loved the writing style and the plot twists! If you're looking for a good, clean murder mystery, try this one! Cleanliness: The words "d*mn" and "h*ll" are used a number of times throughout the book. There is a short scene with a ouija board at the beginning of the story. *Note: I listened to the aud......more

In Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, Cornelia Van Gorder, a spinster who has longed for adventure, takes herself, her Irish maid Lizzie, and her neice Dale off to the country to escape the city's summer heat. She rents a country home that has recently become available when Courtleigh Fleming, a local......more

This impressed me. A great mystery that at times felt predictable, but in the end was really not. The characters were very interesting, and there were some great comedic moments added as well. This read a bit like Agatha Christie, but on the whole I think a little more enjoyable. If you're a mystery......more

A friend who knows that I am interested in mysteries and in books published between the world wars, loaned me an anthology of three Mary Roberts Rinehart novels, so you will be seeing the other two in a week or two. Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been called the "American Agatha Christie". This is......more

I read this book after reading Rinehart's earlier book The Circular Staircase. The Circular Staircase was made into a play that was then written back into novel form by Rinehart as this book. It is very much a product of its time in terms of racial stereotypes, views on gender, etc. The story in thi......more