Locked Doors
Only four days in that house, and her nervous system went to smash. Locked doors is a thrilling, gripping tale of fear, menace, and mystery in which Miss Adams becomes enmeshed when she plays the double game of nurse and detective in a large, eerie house where doors are barred at night ... a...
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Only four days in that house, and her nervous system went to smash.
Locked doors is a thrilling, gripping tale of fear, menace, and mystery in which Miss Adams becomes enmeshed when she plays the double game of nurse and detective in a large, eerie house where doors are barred at night ... a little dog dies mysteriously ... a pitiful woman is imprisoned ... and a headless figure lurks on the stairs.
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Format: mass market paperback
Publish date: 1941
Publisher: Dell
Edition language: English
Series: Hilda Adams (#2)
Woo hoo. I love getting lost in a doorstopper, but it takes a skilled writer to squeeze the right emotions out in a shorter work. Roberts Rinehart got mad skills. And a truly modern feel. Hard to believe this was first published more than 100 years ago. We get a quick and dirty set up: Miss Adams ...
I'm so glad I've 'discovered' Mary Roberts Rinehart. I've only read a very few of her works so far, but the ones I've read have been well worth it. Locked Doors is a short story, but published on its own by Dell back in 1941 (though first copyrighted in 1914). A nurse and undercover agent for th...
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