The Window at the White Cat

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Book Overview

Attorney Jack Knox adored beautiful Margery Fleming, but she adored the less-than-reputable Harry Waldrop. When Margery's father, a corrupt politician, is found dead at a shoddy social club, Jack's on the case. Then Margery's aunt disappears, with only a bloody handprint left for a clue. Now Jack has to piece this puzzle together before someone starts searching for "his" remains.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821729918
• ISBN13: 9780821729915
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Terrific mystery from a master of the genre.

For decades Mary Roberts Rinehart was the queen of mystery thrillers -- the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart's special gift was in the evocation of an overlying and unremitting atmosphere of unease and potential danger and it is under such an atmosphere of apprehension that she spins her stories. The Window at the White Cat was the first Rinehart mystery I read (The Circular Staircase was her first published novel) and I liked it so much that I began to read virtually all of her mystery novels -- many of them more than once. The White Cat in the title is the name of a seedy political hangout in which a killing occurs and the story is a mixture of political shenanigans, romance -- and, above all -- mystery and suspense. The Window at the White Cat is a terrific mystery novel and a very good introduction to the mystery novels of a master of the genre.