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    The After House
    The After House
    The After House
    Audiobook4 hours

    The After House

    Written by Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Narrated by Rebecca Burns

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    Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror. One ship's officer was thrown overboard. Another was hacked to death with an ax. The killer struck again and again, and the Ella was awash in a wave of panic that engulfed passengers and crew alike. Only one hand aboard, ex-landlubber Leslie, seemed enough in control to stay the bloody hand of the murderer. But he'd have to stay alive to do it, and that wasn't going to be easy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 16, 2009
    ISBN9781400181261
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

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    • 3/5
      This was an OK book but not my favorite Mary Robert Rinehart. I was hoping for more of a mystery in this book. There is quite a bit of violence. It does have some suspense.
    • 3/5
      Murders take place at sea with a lots of characters as suspects and weapons disappearing overboard. A doctor recovering from tyfhoid fever takes a job on a yacht as a steward to rebuild his health. Very dated style.
    • 3/5
      The book was ok. The reading of it was not good