Books with author Mary Roberts Rinehart

Nine short stories from one of the nation’s finest mystery authorsWhen her husband demands a divorce, a young wife heads to Reno alone, leaving the baby with her husband and his new beloved, betting that a week trapped between his child and his mistress will make her hubby yearn for her return. By the sea, a hairdresser gets into mischief over a star sports fisherman. And in a city threatened by conflict, a World War I veteran tries to make himself useful by enforcing the blackout.These are just a few of the scenes from the short fiction of Mary Roberts Rinehart, who in these nine brief tales shows why she was one of the nation’s most popular authors for so many decades. Though famous as a mystery writer, Rinehart is just as much at home writing drama, or taking a witty look at the lighter side of law and order. More than a century since she published her first story, Rinehart’s prose remains as sharp as an assassin’s blade.

Sara Lee is a young woman who decides to serve in the Red Cross in Belgium during the Great War taking care of wounded soldiers. She raises a little money and starts a soup kitchen just behind the Belgian trenches. When a young allied spy shows up to ask for help sending message to his headquarters, Sara gets involved in dangerous spy games between bitter enemies.