This is an engaging novel and rather unusual. In a way, it’s like a dark Pollyanna meets A Child’s Christmas in Wales. In the idyllic town of Pequot Landing, in rural New England, lives a woman named Lady Harleigh. She is the ubiquitous widow and local celebrity. She lives in a grand house overlooking the…
REVIEW: THE BAT by Mary Roberts Rinehart
I am so excited to tell people about this book. It’s witty and campy at the same time. It belongs firmly in the “B” or pulp category — but deliciously so. Reminiscent of the smart, slapstick movie Clue, it is just plain fun. Older (but not elderly) Miss Cornelia is of New York blue-blood stock. She…