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| Title | : | The Bat (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder) |
| Author | : | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| Book Format | : | Audiobook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | Mary, Mary, quite contrary ... 374 books — 73 voters Best Books of the Decade: 1920's 514 books — 1,152 voters |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Classics. Audiobook. Thriller. Mystery Thriller |
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Audiobook | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 3.61 | 737 Users | 126 Reviews
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An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their new matron due to happenings within this large mansion. A converging plot concerns the homeowner (a banker) who has recently died and whose bank has just coincidentally failed -- the suspicion falls upon a youthful bank clerk who is the heart-throb of the old lady's niece. The central plot revolves around a mysterious and effective murder/burglar dubbed by the frustrated police as The Bat and who has been operating in the vicinity of this country home. The subsequent happenings in the house are almost slapstick in nature, in the old lady's efforts in solving the mystery of both the infamous Bat's activities and the bank embezzlement. This is the novelization of the play "The Bat" (a play which was adapted by Mary Elizabeth Rinehart and Avery Hopwood from her novel "The Spiral Staircase") credited to Rinehart and Hopwood, but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét.
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| ISBN: | 1594565023 (ISBN13: 9781594565021) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Miss Cornelia Van Gorder |
| Characters: | Cornelia Van Gorder, Lizzie Allen (The Bat), The Bat, Detective Anderson, Billy the gardener, Dale Ogden |
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Ratings: 3.61 From 737 Users | 126 ReviewsAppraise About Books The Bat (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder)
Sometimes termed "the American Agatha Christie" with good reason, prolific mystery author Mary Roberts Rinehart studded the Golden Age of Mystery with her exquisite "mysteries of manners," referencing the long-gone Gilded Age when the wealthy owned mansions and "took" country houses for the summer season, when law enforcement didn't yet know from DNA and Forensic Science. A clever, nay, a genius, criminal could succeed magnificently.I was blessed as a child to devour the novels of Mary RobertsSomeone gave me a copy of The Bat to read. I loved it. Roberts, considered America's answer to Agatha Christie, wrote mysteries in the early part of the 20th century. The version of The Bat that I read was written in 1926, though it appears she wrote another version in the 50s. The plot was a riot and reminded me of silent mystery/thriller movies such as "Fantomas". Written in brief chapters that ended with cliffhangers that kept me guessing, it was a heck of a lot of fun.
Enjoyed it even though the writing is old style and there are lots of adverbs. I liked Rinehart when I was young and can still enjoy her.
In Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, Cornelia Van Gorder, a spinster who has longed for adventure, takes herself, her Irish maid Lizzie, and her neice Dale off to the country to escape the city's summer heat. She rents a country home that has recently become available when Courtleigh Fleming, a local bank manager, died. She's bemoaning her quiet, unadventurous existence when suddenly the countryside becomes the center for some very mysterious activity.Cornelia begins receiving anonymous notes
A surprising and unique book, even if not a good one. I had heard of it previously, and decided to try it. It reads unlike any other novel I've ever read.The viewpoint is chaotic; not just a multiple point-of-view book, but one that veers from viewpoint to viewpoint in the same chapter, nearly in the same paragraph. Sometimes we'll be in one character's thoughts, and other times outside of them. Sometimes we'll shift to omniscient narrator -- and even the omniscient narrator can't explain what's
1.5-2* Oh dear. I was interested in Rinehart as a golden age mystery writer publishing mainly during and between WWI and WWII. This is her first book (1908) and it shows. A little like Keystone Cops meet Miss Marple, if Miss Marple were duller, incompetent, and apt to make casual racist comments about her Japanese butler and his yellow mask of a face (though the protagonist clearly respects and trusts him, for the most part). Reading Rineharts The Yellow Room (written nearly 40 years later)
In Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, Cornelia Van Gorder, a spinster who has longed for adventure, takes herself, her Irish maid Lizzie, and her neice Dale off to the country to escape the city's summer heat. She rents a country home that has recently become available when Courtleigh Fleming, a local bank manager, died. She's bemoaning her quiet, unadventurous existence when suddenly the countryside becomes the center for some very mysterious activity.Cornelia begins receiving anonymous notes
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