The After House

Written by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by Kristen Underwood

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• Release date: Jan 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781455100156

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

Reviews for The After House

[bookwoman37-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was an OK book but not my favorite Mary Robert Rinehart. I was hoping for more of a mystery in this book. There is quite a bit of violence. It does have some suspense.

[kathy89_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Murders take place at sea with a lots of characters as suspects and weapons disappearing overboard. A doctor recovering from tyfhoid fever takes a job on a yacht as a steward to rebuild his health. Very dated style.