The swimming pool
1952American Detective and mystery storiesNoir fictionLarge type booksMaynard, lois (fictitious character), fictionFiction, thrillers, suspense
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In a crumbling mansion, two sisters hide from the world, afraid for their lives The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of ’29, when Lois and Judith’s father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime retreat from the world. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose nerves are beginning to fray, while Lois still lives in the dilapidated old mansion, writing mystery novels to pay the bills. She is about to encounter a mystery of her own. To stave off a nervous breakdown, Judith moves in with her kid sister. Terrified of an unnamed threat, she nails her windows shut and locks the door. Soon, a woman is found dead in the pool—a stranger who bears a shocking resemblance to Judith. In a family with a history of tragedy, a chilling new chapter is about to be written. Judith Chandler has always been the spoiled beauty of the family, but something has gone terribly wrong. With a deadline to meet on her latest detective novel, Lois has no patience to deal with her sister's fears. Until a real-life mystery begins to unfold. For one night, Judith disappears from her locked bedroom, and in the morning, a woman's body is found floating in the swimming pool.
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American Detective and mystery storiesNoir fictionLarge type booksMaynard, lois (fictitious character), fictionFiction, thrillers, suspenseFiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
First published 1952Setting
The Birchesa grand mansion in New York City1920s
About the author
Mary Roberts Rinehart
12 August 1876 – 22 September 1958
A crime writer often called "the American Agatha Christie" (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart>Wikipedia</a>).
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