The Album /
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958,
The Album / Mary Roberts Rinehart. - 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm - American mystery classics . - Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library. .
Includes discussion questions.
"Even in the early 1930s, Crescent Place is a neighborhood out of the past. The five Victorian mansions and the remote patch of pasture placed between them have the air of the 1890s, even as the city--once miles away from this idyllic retreat--encroaches and surrounds the enclave. But while these rarified residences may appear calm on the outside, their isolated interiors contain dark secrets, prolonged feuds, and generations of high-toned trouble. n 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 ax. When her murder shatters the well-mannered quiet of the cul-de-sac, the tabloids delight in trumpeting Crescent Place's peculiarities. But as the search for the killer intensifies, it becomes clear that the area's strangest secrets have yet to be revealed." --
1613163614 9781613163610 1613163622 9781613163627
GBC2I8560 bnb
020786042 Uk
Women detectives--Fiction.
Gated communities--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Serial murder investigation--Fiction.
Rich people--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
The Album / Mary Roberts Rinehart. - 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm - American mystery classics . - Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library. .
Includes discussion questions.
"Even in the early 1930s, Crescent Place is a neighborhood out of the past. The five Victorian mansions and the remote patch of pasture placed between them have the air of the 1890s, even as the city--once miles away from this idyllic retreat--encroaches and surrounds the enclave. But while these rarified residences may appear calm on the outside, their isolated interiors contain dark secrets, prolonged feuds, and generations of high-toned trouble. n 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 ax. When her murder shatters the well-mannered quiet of the cul-de-sac, the tabloids delight in trumpeting Crescent Place's peculiarities. But as the search for the killer intensifies, it becomes clear that the area's strangest secrets have yet to be revealed." --
1613163614 9781613163610 1613163622 9781613163627
GBC2I8560 bnb
020786042 Uk
Women detectives--Fiction.
Gated communities--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Serial murder investigation--Fiction.
Rich people--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)