Tish
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Tish Carberry and her spinster-friends Aggie and Lizze are at it again. From unknowingly backing—and then winning—crooked motorcar races to subsidizing an exploitive émigré and his bride to joining the Simple Life movement and taking up residence in the woods, life is never dull for the three women and their associates.
Tish is the second book in Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories “Mind Over Motor,” “Like a Wolf on the Fold,” “The Simple Lifers,” “Tish’s Spy,” and “My Country Tish of Thee—“
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Created over 13 years agoAbout 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.