The After House

By Mary Roberts Rinehart

"The After House" by Mary Roberts Rinehart is based on a true event that happened in the 1890s aboard a lumber ship called the Herbert Fuller. The day a luxury yacht sets sail is a gorgeous sunny day, and there is no hint that something is amiss. When the ship comes back to port 31 days later, Leslie is the acting captain of the ship, and they are towing a canvas-covered lifeboat holding the corpses of three people murdered with an axe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 22, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664640819

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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