"Succeeds to a remarkable degree in thrilling the reader ... she stands in direct line, and not unworthily, after Stevenson and that born teller of tales, F. Marion Crawford."—Philadelphia Press.
"Mrs. Rinehart has disclosed herself as an adept and ingenious inventor of thrilling murder puzzles, and in none of them has she told a story more directly and more fluently than in 'The After House.'"—Boston Transcript.
"Mrs. Rinehart has, with no small constructive skill, created a real mystery and left it unsolved until the very last.... Her incidents follow one another in rapid succession and the interest of the story is maintained to the very end. A good novel for quick reading."—New York Herald.
Illustrated by May Wilson Preston
12mo, $1.25 net.
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THE SPARE ROOM
By Mrs. Romilly Fedden
"A bride and groom, a villa in Capri, a spare room and seven guests (assorted varieties) are the ingredients which go to make this thoroughly amusing book."—Chicago Evening Post.
"Bubbling over with laughter ... distinctly a book to read and chuckle over."—Yorkshire Observer.