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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, rents a sprawling summer house called Sunnyside with her orphaned niece and nephew. What begins as a quiet country retreat soon unravels: a shot on the east veranda, a bank president's son dead at the foot of a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Bat (1920), by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, is the classic American mystery that helped inspire the legend of the Batman. A shadowy master criminal known only as "the Bat" robs and murders at will, leaving the city in terror. Refusing to...

When Rachel Innes rents a quiet country house for the summer, she expects rest and relaxation—not murder, missing heirs, and a string of terrifying events that seem to center around a dark, winding staircase. From the moment strange noises echo through the halls and a dead body is discovered, Rachel finds herself caught in a web of secrets that refuse to stay buried. As tension builds, hidden passages are uncovered, identities are questioned, and danger lurks in every shadow.

This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. Summary by David WalesThis show includes AI-generated content.

Published in 1914, Street of Seven Stars follows the enchanting journey of Harmony Wells, a talented and naive American girl who travels to Austria to pursue her passion for the violin. With dreams of a vibrant music career, Harmony finds herself alone after her friends return home, determined to continue her lessons. In the bustling city of Vienna, she crosses paths with Peter Byrne, an American doctor dedicated to his ambition of mastering surgery. As he cares for an orphan boy in a local hospital, Peter feels compelled to guard Harmony from the darker realities of urban life. Together, they...

Join a divorced playboy as he throws an extravagant dinner party, complete with a stand-in wife to appease his wealthy aunt who keeps him afloat. When his chef falls ill with smallpox symptoms, chaos ensues! Add an ex-wife, a dash of mystery, and a sprinkle of romance, and you have a comedic romp that will have you laughing out loud. - Summary by Sharon KilmerThis show includes AI-generated content.

Dive into the enigmatic world of "After House," where the shadows of the past intertwine with the chilling present aboard a floating vessel. This podcast unravels the intricate tapestry of suspense and mystery, inviting listeners to explore themes of isolation, trust, and the darker corners of human nature. Each episode features a new complete audiobook that captures the essence of life on the high seas, where secrets lurk beneath the surface and danger can strike at any moment. This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations that challenge perceptions and keep you guessing ...

This collection, published in 1921, has 3 short stories about the adventures of Tish Carberry and her loyal and patient friends, Aggie and Lizzie. All the stories are told from Lizzie's point of view. The stories are loosely related. Tish Carberry is fearless and seeks to be useful to her world and do what is right.

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious events, ghostly apparitions, things that go bump in the night and murder.

Mary Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the "Had I but known" mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parsonage at Miss Emily's request she soon came to regret it. Was the house haunted? Did Miss Emily have a secret so terrible she would rather die than reveal it? To find the answers you will need to listen.

The Cave on Thunder Cloud by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a humorous adventure featuring the spirited Tish Carberry and her loyal companions, Aggie and Lizzie.Seeking excitement and independence, Tish convinces her friends to join her on a camping expedition near Thunder Cloud Mountain. What begins as a simple outdoor adventure soon becomes far more complicated when the women find themselves unexpectedly connected to the aftermath of a train robbery.Their campsite and a nearby cave become important to the unfolding mystery, and circumstances begin to make the three women appear suspicious. As the ...

Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a dramatic novel of family conflict, social change, love, and personal responsibility set against the tense atmosphere of the early twentieth century.The story centers on Clayton Spencer, a successful businessman whose apparently comfortable life hides growing dissatisfaction and emotional strain. His marriage to Natalie has become distant, and the differences between them gradually become impossible to ignore. While Clayton is serious, disciplined, and deeply concerned with duty, Natalie is drawn toward comfort, society, and personal freedom.As ...

K by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a romantic mystery novel about Sidney Page, an ambitious young nurse, and K. LeMoyne, a mysterious doctor with a hidden past. Sidney is courted by the charming but unreliable Dr. Max Wilson, while K, who rents a room in her home, harbors secrets about his identity. As the story unfolds, Sidney faces personal and professional challenges, leading to unexpected revelations about K’s past. Ultimately, love, redemption, and integrity triumph in this engaging blend of romance, drama, and suspense. Summary by Dream AudioBooks

There are so many kinds of love: romantic, filial, spiritual … The following stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart present all sorts of love: “Twenty-two” “Jane” “In the Pavilion” “God’s Fool” “The Miracle” “Are We Downhearted? No!” “The Game” Many of the stories take...

Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, bad luck, or just fate that lands him as deck steward on the schooner Ella? Because once in open water, the booze flows too freely, old animosities resurface, and new ones form. And then someone starts behaving badly, so badly, in fact, that people are turning up dead. It becomes Leslie’s job to get the Ella, its crew and passengers, and the evidence back to port before the murderer strikes again.

Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular ...

Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for her bestselling mystery novels such as The Circular Staircase published in 1907, earned a reputation as “the American Agatha Christie” through the success of her novels. Yet Rinehart was also a WWI correspondent. After convincing her editor at The Saturday...

Precocious seventeen-year-old Bab, with a sizeable sense of the romantic and an over-developed sense of the dramatic, shares how these traits get her into continuous scrapes via school themes, journals, and articles meant for publication. How can a made-up paramour appear at a ball? Will Bab...

Letitia Carberry, Tish to her friends, is off again on three entirely different adventures. Tish, Aggie and Lizzie, three middle-aged spinsters, are on track to create havoc wherever they go, but Tish is definitely the ringleader and leads where the other two ladies would rather not go.

Letitia Carberry is not your ordinary spinster aunt. Letitia, Tish to her friends, entangles her friends Aggie and Lizzie into all sorts of adventures and scrapes from solving a murder, car races and camping, and horse trekking. Letitia Carberry is a force to be reckoned with.