With this eBook or online at Title: The Bat Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. Project Gutenberg's The Bat, by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart The Bat, on the other hand is presented in an over-blown, clichéd style that just didn’t hold up or keep my attention. Add to this a dead man who isn’t quite as dead as everyone thinks and a bank robbery where the cash is missing, mix with some very stereotypical characters and the end result is The Bat.I prefer my older mysteries to be low-keyed and to use humor and/or wry observations to advance the plot. Before too long the residents of the house are experiencing nightly noises and strange sights. The rural area is the haunt of a master criminal called the Bat. But she also made sure the overwrought ghost-believing maid, Lizzie, was identified as Irish many times.An older woman leaves New York City to take a house in the country for the summer. There were some definite racial slurs, mostly aimed at a Japanese Butler that I found quite distasteful. The background details, the settings, styles and manners of the time period were of more interest to me. The mystery was alright, but presented in a melodramatic style that quickly became too much. Unfortunately I found the story quite dated. The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart was originally published in 1926.
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