![]() ![]() Aunt Rachel has never seen him before, but Gertrude and Halsey knew him all too well. ![]() The dead man turns out to be Arnold Armstrong, ne’er-do-well son of the owner of Sunnyside. ![]() The fourth night brings a dead body.įrom there, things only get worse. Late the third night, a sinister figure lurks outside the patio window and Rachel hears a heavy crash on the circular staircase at the east end of the house. With the irresistible encouragement of her niece Gertrude and nephew Halsey, whom she raised after her brother’s death, Rachel ignores her better judgment and rents Sunnyside, a sprawling Elizabethan mansion owned by a bank president, for the summer. ![]() So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American crime fiction. This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America’s queen of crime ![]()
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