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- This book includes all 10 illustrations by Howard Chandler Christi from the 1911 book printing by THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS INDIANAPOLIS. Often called the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was a prolific author who wrote hundreds of books, short stories, poems, travelogues, plays, and special articles. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. Contrasting with her well-known straight mysteries, Rinehart's Letitia "Tish" Carberry books are comedy mixed, not always, with mystery. Famous in her day, Tish inspired many book characters of elderly women who defy stereotype. "The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry" is the first "Tish" book and contains one novella, by the same title as the book, and two long short stories, "Three Pirates of Penzance" and "That Awful Night."

Mary Roberts Rinehart was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh. Her father was a frustrated inventor, and throughout her childhood, the family often had financial problems. Left-handed at a time when that was considered inappropriate, she was trained to use her right hand instead. She attended public schools and graduated at age 16, then enrolled at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. She described the experience as "all the tragedy of the world under one roof." After graduation, she married Stanley Marshall Rinehart (1867-1932), a physician she had met there. They had three sons and one daughter: Stanley Jr., Frederick, Alan, and Elizabeth Glory. During the stock market crash of 1903, the couple lost their savings, spurring Rinehart's efforts at writing as a way to earn income. She was 27 that year, and produced 45 short stories. In 1907, she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that propelled her to national fame. According to her obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1958, the book sold 1.25 million copies.

Excerpt from The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry No, she snapped. GO out in the hall and see what has happened. Miss Lewis yawned again and groped around in the half-light for her slippers. It was more than Tish could stand. She hopped out Of bed in her bare feet and limped to the door. The hall was almost dark and across it the woman with the appendix - or without - was groaning. But half-way along, where the night nurse has her desk and keeps her papers and where the annunciator for the patients' bell is fastened to the wall, Tish saw a group Of five or six nurses, gathered about somebody in a chair. One Of them came running past with a glass Of something, and the crowd opened to admit the girl and the glass and closed again. Miss Lems came and looked over Tish's shoulder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The indomitable Letitia Carberry, known as Tish, leaps before she looks, leading her spinster-friends, Aggie and Lizzie, headfirst into hilarious, often perilous, circumstances. But as resourceful and resolute women of a certain age and station, the three friends inevitably gain the upper hand, solving mysteries and reuniting lovers before adjourning for a well-deserved rest. The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry includes the mystery The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry, as well as the short stories “Three Pirates of Penzance” and “That Awful Night.” HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.