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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i will take a look at that too ; i don't know Rinehart and i am always happy to find new (old) mystery writers...
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Rinehart is worthwhile. You might also look at Anna Katherine Green. Her father was a judge, and she grew up around judges, lawyers, and police. Her stories are authentic as to the police procedures of the time, and legally accurate. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, sold 750,000 copies, and was used by Yale University to demonstrate the fallacy of circumstantial evidence. She was one of the first women to succeed as a writer of mystery fiction, and produced 40 books.
Her language is stilted and formal by our standards, but her stories hold up fairly well.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a541
http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/a...atherine_green
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Dennis