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The Essential Rinehart Collection continues with Volume 5 of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novels. Set during World War I, “The Amazing Interlude” is both a haunting romance and a mystery. A young woman, Sara Lee, joins the Red Cross, travels to Europe, and changes her life forever. “The Street of Seven Stars” is an atmospheric mystery set in long-ago Austria. Take a trip back in time and experience the danger first hand.
The present book 'The Street of Seven Stars' written by the famous English novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart was first published in the year 1914. This is one of her pre-World War I romance novels.
Often referred to as the "American Agatha Christie," Mary Roberts Rinehart did much to popularize and refine the mystery genre in the United States. The Street of Seven Stars follows an American musician, Harmony Wells, to Austria, where she has gone to hone her violin skills. Though the dashing doctor she meets there appears to want to protect her, there may be more to his motives than meets the eye.
Harmony Wells is a struggling American studying music all alone in pre-WWI Vienna, Peter Byrne a young doctor in similar circumstances. He vows to look after her, out of which an awkward relationship and romance begins to blossom.
When Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends. Fortunately, the marvels of the city do a good job in distracting Seckry from his anger and homesickness, and it isn't long before he's competing at Friction (the city's most popular multiplayer video game), slurping awe-inspiring multicoloured milkshakes, and getting butterflies on his first date. Then, when a mysterious email asks Seckry to break into the headquarters of the Endrin Corporation and steal a container full of worms for a hefty sum of money, his anger resurfaces, and he can't resist the revenge he promised himself. Alone at night, Seckry creeps through the sewers whilst wondering what experiments Endrin might be doing on the worms, and emerges into the silent complex. But the worms aren't the only thing that he finds. Staring at him through the darkness, with wide, innocent eyes, is something that makes Seckry's heart almost stop. A girl. She's shaking, petrified, and has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there. Floodlights bleach the area and Seckry has no choice but to grab a hold of the girl and escape with her. Suddenly the question of what Endrin were doing with a few worms becomes the last thing on Seckry's mind. What were Endrin doing with a human?
The Street of Seven Stars is one of the greatest works in the field of fiction by Mary Roberts Rinehart . It is one of the vintage collections by Mary Roberts Rinehart . Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone.
The Street of Seven Stars is one of the greatest works in the field of fiction by Mary Roberts Rinehart . It is one of the vintage collections by Mary Roberts Rinehart . Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone.