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    By Mary Roberts Rinehart

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2004
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    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.

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    • 3/5
      18-year-old Sidney Page is eager to break free of the Street that defines her life. Taking in a boarder with a mysterious past gives her the freedom to enter nurse's training. She can live in the nurse's quarters knowing that the reliable K. LeMoyne is looking after things at home. K. is both encouraging and protective in his friendship with Sidney. Soon everyone on the street begin to turn to K. in a crisis. Meanwhile, Sidney catches the eye of handsome young surgeon Dr. Max Wilson, younger brother of the doctor who lives across the Street from Sidney. Will Sidney's love for Wilson survive the revelation that her hero has clay feet?This 100-year-old romance is very much a product of its time. The social structure that is so important in the novel no longer exists. While this is a didactic novel, the tone is not “preachy”. Both K. and Sidney exhibit sympathy for others, particularly women, who break the moral code of the street, such as the middle-aged spinster in love with a married man unable to divorce his insane wife. The characters and plot are forgettable. Readers wishing to learn about social life in a lower middle class neighborhood of a century ago will get the most out of this book.
    • 4/5
      K. is not one of Ms. Rinehart's classic murder mysteries. There are mysteries, yes, but no deliberate murder.
    • 1/5
      This 1915 book was No. 5 on the 1915 best seller list. It is a soupy simple book--not a mystery, as I had expected--laid in about 1913 , telling of Sydney and her social life. The title of the book suggests who she ends up with, but for most of the book she does not appreciate the merits of K. Le Moyne, who is a roomer in her home. I thought the writng poor and the plot creaky, One should look on it as means of seeing what popular fiction was like before World War One.

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