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    The Breaking Point (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Mary Roberts Rinehart

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    Small-town physician Dick Livingston would like nothing better than to marry church-choir singer Elizabeth Wheeler. He doesn’t dare, though, till he clears up the mystery of his own past. Ten years ago, Dick lost his memory. Could he really be a killer without knowing it? A 1922 classic of psychological mystery and suspense.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781411442917
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

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