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The Bat Kindle Edition

by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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For months, the city has lived in fear of the Bat. A master criminal hindered by neither scruple nor fear, he has stolen over one million dollars and left at least six men dead. The police are helpless, the newspapers know nothing—even the key figures of the city's underworld have no clue as to the identity of the Bat. He is a living embodiment of death itself, and he is coming to the countryside. There, he will encounter the only person who can stop him: adventurous sixty-five-year-old spinster Cornelia Van Gorder. Last in a long line of New York society royalty, Cornelia has found old age to be a bore, and is hungry for a bit of adventure. She's going to find it—in a lonely old country house where every shadow could be the Bat.
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    Start Classics
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    April 25, 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00K0UAQUY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Start Classics (April 25, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 25, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 679 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1483996735
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922.

Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908).

She also created a costumed super-criminal called "the Bat", cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman".

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Theodore C. Marceau [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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PJ Patterson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2022
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A book filled with mystery, wit and humor. A creation from the mind of an excellent author. An entertaining book devoid the graphic atrocities of modern day authors. Great plot with twists and turns and surprise ending.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Bat - melodramatic mystery by the great Mary Roberts Rinehart
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2017
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For Mary Roberts Rinehart, I recommend The Wall and The Swimming Pool. The Bat is a good mystery, but it is somewhat melodramatic and outdated now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Equal to an Agatha Christie mystery
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014
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This book is a very old book which my dad had over 40 years ago and it still doesn't excellent Mstery to read and actually there are plays that are made from this. An excellent read for those that like a good mystery.
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Darleen Owens
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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As advertised, thank you, fast shipping
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Aunt Book
3.0 out of 5 stars Good mystery, irritating characters
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2014
I just finished reading this book, although the one I read was the Kensington Books paperback from about 15 years ago.

The mystery is intricate and interesting.

The problem lies with the characters, or at least some of them. I like Miss Cornelia, and one or two other characters whose names I won't mention lest I spoil anything. Lizzie, the maid, however, is a deeply stupid, hysterical, annoying nitwit, and by about the second time she started wailing and shrieking someone should either have flung cold water in her face or at least told her to shut up or leave. Had I been there I would have had to exercise incredible self-control not to give her the slap she so richly deserved.

Dale, Miss Cornelia's niece, is just as stupid: a brainless, spineless ninny who doesn't have enough sense to keep her mouth shut about things that a two-year-old would know should be kept confidential, and then drivels around moaning and whimpering and wringing her hands, essentially. The only real consolation is that she and her effete boyfriend will, presumably, marry at some point and thus make sure that nobody else has to endure life with either one of them.

Read it for the mystery. Perhaps you have more patience with imbeciles than I do.
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robert alexander feld
5.0 out of 5 stars The origins of Batman are told in the character of ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2014
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The origins of Batman are told in the character of the bat, I've been looking for a paper copy for a long time, but a kindle edition was just what I needed. Thank you.
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ReynoldsHafner
4.0 out of 5 stars The Circular Staircase is brilliant classic mystery novel
Reviewed in Australia on July 15, 2016
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If I had realised this is the The Circular Staircase adapted as a play I would not have read it.
The Circular Staircase is brilliant classic mystery novel.
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