{"id":37632,"date":"2020-09-22T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=37632"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:56:43","slug":"the-haunted-lady-by-mary-roberts-rinehart-american-mystery-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-haunted-lady-by-mary-roberts-rinehart-american-mystery-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart – American Mystery Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Haunted Lady<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Mary Roberts Rinehart is enjoying a new rebirth thanks to Otto Penzler and his American Mystery Classics <\/a><\/em>series.\u00a0 Originally published in 1942, The Haunted Lady<\/em> is one of a handful of reprinted mysteries hand selected by Penzler for a new generation of mystery readers.\u00a0 Even though the American Mystery Classic<\/em> series includes a multitude of vintage authors, the reissued titles have a common theme in their beautifully modern covers that give the books a uniform look and feel.\u00a0 The cover of The Haunted Lady<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is exactly what drew me to the book in the first place.\u00a0 Known as “the American Agatha Christie”, Rinehart apparently lost popularity after her death in the 1950s.\u00a0 Penzler provides a short history of the author’s work at the beginning of the book.\u00a0 Featuring nurse Hilda Adams, The Haunted Lady<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is one of three books featuring Adams.\u00a0 Even though this book is the second in the series, picking up the book without reading the first in the series was seamless.<\/p>\n

When we meet Hilda Adams, she has been recruited by Inspector Fuller to insert herself into the wealthy Fairbanks household to look after the elderly matriarch Eliza Fairbanks. Mrs. Fairbanks is convinced someone in her household is trying to kill her by initially feeding her arsenic and then by driving her mad with loose bats in her bedroom.\u00a0 Nurse Adams charge is to keep an eye on Mrs. Fairbanks and report back to Inspector Fuller.\u00a0 She meets a cast of characters in the Fairbanks family, and almost immediately more odd occurrences happen.\u00a0 \u00a0After a murder is committed in a seemingly locked room under Nurse Adams watch, she and Inspector Fuller team up to uncover the baffling truth.<\/p>\n

For fans of early 20th century mysteries and cozy mysteries, I recommend The Haunted Lady<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>as well as other novels in the American Mystery Classics<\/em> series.\u00a0 At the time, Mary Roberts Rinehart was\u00a0 a very popular mystery writer and although not well know today, her mysteries still hold the reader’s attention and keep them guessing as to the culprit.\u00a0 This series reintroduces vintage authors to an entirely new set of readers in today’s world.<\/p>\n

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The Haunted Lady \u00a0by Mary Roberts Rinehart is enjoying a new rebirth thanks to Otto Penzler and his American Mystery Classics series.\u00a0 Originally published in 1942, The Haunted Lady is one of a handful of reprinted mysteries hand selected by Penzler for a new generation of mystery readers.\u00a0 Even though[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,8],"tags":[1459,2036,2899,5204,5415,5416,2340,3149],"class_list":["post-37632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-staff-picks","tag-1940s","tag-agatha-christie","tag-cozy-mysteries","tag-dysfunctional-families","tag-locked-room","tag-mansion","tag-matriarch","tag-nurse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-9MY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37632"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37632\/revisions\/37697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}