The Door

What is the ultimate impulse which drives a person to kill? One can understand motives. One can understand violent passion. One can also understand fear, jealousy and revenge. Than we have murders of irregulars, drug addicts, mental deficients that their motives are distoted in their mind. Than ther......more

First off....this review is chock full of spoilers. I can't really talk about the book the way I want to without spoiling it. So--if you don't want to know the solution, don't read past the synopsis until after you've given Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Door a read of your own. Synopsis: Elizabeth Bell......more

A century after Mary Roberts Rinehart first put pen to paper, her novels remain as thrilling as ever. In The Door, set in Upstate New York in 1927, practical spinster Elizabeth Jane Bell sees her household troubled by the death of Sarah Gittings, a woman who had served as nurse to her family for 20......more

**Part of my Murder by Death project explained here where I try to determine whether or not a book is fair by giving the reader enough clues to solve the mystery himself before the big reveal. The reason for its inclusion is spelled out under the spoiler tag.** And I'm super serious. Major spoiler he......more