Dangerous Days

Written by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by Lynda Evans

Just after the turn of the century on the eve of World War I society is divided into many different classes, and corruption is rampant high and low. The darkening storm of the looming war threatens  to tear apart the lives and relationships of a group of close friends. At the eye of the storm is Clayton Spencer, an ambitious businessman, who must risk everything to be with the woman he loves. As the war breaks so do their lives, none of which will remain the same. These are indeed dangerous days for the friends, society and the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books in Motion
• Release date: Jul 15, 2001
• ISBN: 9781581162233

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 Dangerous Days

[gttexas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A saccharine sweet WWI romance without a hint of mystery. Everyone is either long suffering, self sacrificing or a total "cad". It was enjoyable to me for a change of pace.