One crime writer's truth was just as strange as her fiction

We’d wager that most mystery novelists tend to imagine plot twists far more often than they live them.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, a highly successful crime novelist in the early 1900s, was the exception to that generalization.

Crime Reads revisits the events leading up to an attempt on Rinehart’s life that very well could’ve happened to one of her heroines instead of herself.

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