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ISBN:	1594565023 (ISBN13: 9781594565021)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
Characters:	Cornelia Van Gorder, Lizzie Allen (The Bat), The Bat, Detective Anderson, Billy the gardener, Dale Ogden

The Bat (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder)

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Audiobook | Pages: 316 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 737 Users | 126 Reviews

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Title	:	The Bat (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder)
Author	:	Mary Roberts Rinehart
Book Format	:	Audiobook
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 316 pages
Published	:	Mary, Mary, quite contrary ... 374 books — 73 voters Best Books of the Decade: 1920's 514 books — 1,152 voters
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Classics. Audiobook. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

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An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their new matron due to happenings within this large mansion. A converging plot concerns the homeowner (a banker) who has recently died and whose bank has just coincidentally failed -- the suspicion falls upon a youthful bank clerk who is the heart-throb of the old lady's niece.

The central plot revolves around a mysterious and effective murder/burglar dubbed by the frustrated police as The Bat and who has been operating in the vicinity of this country home. The subsequent happenings in the house are almost slapstick in nature, in the old lady's efforts in solving the mystery of both the infamous Bat's activities and the bank embezzlement.

This is the novelization of the play "The Bat" (a play which was adapted by Mary Elizabeth Rinehart and Avery Hopwood from her novel "The Spiral Staircase") credited to Rinehart and Hopwood, but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét.

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I had a lot of interruptions and distractions while trying to finish this book. I think I may enjoy it more if I can read without distraction.

Wow, mystery novels were different in 1920. For example, if you published a mystery novel then, and one of your characters was Japanese, you might mention that Japaneseness 50 or 60 times throughout the course of the book. You might also have the other characters impute certain moods or character traits to this character simply because he is Japanese. Also, you might create characters so stereotypical that most of the time you would use labels to refer to them: "the doctor," "the detective," and

In Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, Cornelia Van Gorder, a spinster who has longed for adventure, takes herself, her Irish maid Lizzie, and her neice Dale off to the country to escape the city's summer heat. She rents a country home that has recently become available when Courtleigh Fleming, a local bank manager, died. She's bemoaning her quiet, unadventurous existence when suddenly the countryside becomes the center for some very mysterious activity.Cornelia begins receiving anonymous notes

Hm. I seem to have reviewed this on some alternate site...another mystery. Anyway, this is a classic 20th century mystery with a far more tangled past than I thought. The Wikipedia explanation of who wrote what is more convoluted than the plot. But apparently there was a story by MRR that became a play and a movie and then it was turned into a new play by MRR and someone else and then a young Stephen Vincent Benet ghost-wrote this best selling novel, which is really a novelization! After the

What a strange and goofy book. The Bat almost reads like a spoof of overused dark-old-house mystery tropes, but the lack of playfulness in its use of those tropes gives away that the author is playing it straight here. Although there are broad comedic aspects that might have played well in the play this novel was based on, such as the maid whose every appearance ends in a shriek and a faint, but which dont translate well to the novelization. Theres also some passive bigotry towards the Japanese

COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century American Crime BOOK 73 (of 250)Highly original!HOOK=4 stars: Is this the basis for THE BATMAN? Early deaths in chapter 1 lead us to think this Bat might be a murderer, or at least hunting for one. And why, exactly, is this Bat meeting with the chief of police in Chapter 1? Even Jo Nesbo's relatively recent "The Bat" (his debut) didn't completely satisfy our bat cravings! But without the fame of THE BATMAN, we might pass on this almost impossible-to-find work. (My

After the last book, I did promise that I would cleanse my palate with something truly classic and well-written. Well, one out of two isnt bad. When I saw a Mary Roberts Rineharts novel on Net Galley, I couldnt believe my luck. My mother introduced me to her books back in my pre-teen days that is what passed as YA literature back then. I read a couple of her books in the past few years and enjoyed them for what they are old-fashioned, demure, cozy mysteries with a likeable heroine narrating