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The Bat!

The Bat!

Re-reading an old mystery in an old paperback

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Steve Donoghue
Jan 13, 2025
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Our book today is The Bat, the 1926 crime novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart which was basically intended as a novelization of the 1920 stage play “The Bat” which was written by Rinehart and Avery Hopwood and which was based on Rinehart’s novel The Circular Staircase, if that isn’t too convoluted an etiology, and everything about the book was a certified hit.

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