Mary Roberts Rinehart 
The Confession 

This book includes a bonus narrative in addition to one of Rinehart's most well-known mysteries. The last person anyone would suspect of crime in "The Confession" is elderly Miss Emily Benton. She kindly agrees to let Agnes Blakiston and her housekeeper Maggie live in the Benton house for the summer without paying rent. But the women quickly realize that there is a problem. Curl up with a mystery from the pen of Mary Roberts Rinehart, a brilliant storyteller who was frequently praised as the American equivalent of Agatha Christie of Britain. The best examples of Rinehart's spine-tingling, heart-pounding work can be found in "The Confession." American mystery author Rinehart, whose cleverness and humor are renowned for their work on The Confession, starts the book: Up until this point, only private records existed on the somewhat amazing tale that the Neighborhood Club's experiments revealed. But as a participant in the investigations, he believes that they should be made public—not so much for what they will add to the body of knowledge about psychological research, since from that perspective they were not unusual, but rather as another investigation into the human mind, which is still largely unexplored.