ISBN: 9781596881273
Although Mary Roberts Rinehart is remembered today as the creator of the modern detective story, she was also popular for creating the character of Letitia Carberry, a middle-aged, self-reliant spinster and proto-feminist who does unconventional things like race cars, stunt work, bear hunting and ambulance driving. Tish and friends Aggie and Lizzie fascinated her readers for a span of 30 years. The five Tish stories included are “Mind over Motor,” “Like a Wolf in the Fold,” “The Simple Lifers,” “Tish’s Spy,” and “My Country Tish of Thee—.”
Mary Roberts Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, is considered one of the founding masters of the modern mystery story for using narrative point of view as a key element of how the mystery is perceived by the reader and eventually solved. She is credited with creating the phrase, “the butler did it” in her novel, The Door.