The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart

A series of short stories about three aging spinsters. Tish is the ringleader of this trio and she guides them through one reckless adventure after another.

The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent scholarship, the exhibition will explore changing ideas of love, and give readers the opportunity to discover love stories both tragic and transcendent. The stories cover a variety of topics including: the role of the muse, featuring stories such as George Romney, Lady Emma Hamilton and Nelson, and the Bloomsbury group; scandal and tragedy, exploring the relationships of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono; literary love, highlighting the tales of Mary and Percy Shelley, and Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; a shared studio, featuring the stories of artists Lee Miller and Man Ray, and Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson; and love and the lens, which explores the stories of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and Mick and Bianca Jagger. 'Love Stories' will be brought to life through the perspective of various authors, using material from the sitter's own letters, diaries and poetry, while highlighting their connection and influence on some of the greatest masterpieces of art. Exhibition: touring to Australia, USA and Hong Kong from Summer 2020.

A bestseller in 1910, When a Man Marries tells what happens when a man tries to hide the fact that he is divorced by taking on a temporary wife for a dinner party. A riveting blend of comedy and mystery, the popular story also found success as a play, Tumble In, and as a movie, Seven Days.

Sub deb creates an imaginary love affair to gain attention of her family and gets the desired results and more.

What starts out at as a simple train ride for Lawrence Blakely soon turns disastrous. The attorney-at-law is hand delivering decisive documents in a criminal case, and finds himself on the other side of the law when he is mixed up in a murder. Someone is after Blakely and his papers, and the classic mystery style of Mary Roberts Rinehart guarantees there’s a good story behind the strange happenings.The Man in Lower Ten was the first detective novel to make it to the national bestseller list, and it hasn’t lost its edge. It has the romance and the suspense of today’s mystery novels and boasts the ability to stand the test of time.