![]() No one has yet succeeded in capturing him those who have tried have met an unfortunate end. One of his calling cards is leaving the image of a bat at the scene of the crime (on a couple of occasions, it is a real bat nailed to the wall of the robbed house). The Bat is a mysterious thief, who, despite his flamboyant modus operandi, has eluded the authorities. What I didn’t know while I was reading it is that The Bat was actually a stage play first (1920) before being turned into the 1926 novel. I could imagine myself in the audience waiting for the next blackout and listening for the scream that follows. ![]() An isolated house with people who aren’t who they claim to be, appropriately timed electrical blackouts, a deadly supercriminal, a young woman trying to protect her falsely accused lover, a man who has lost his memory- The Bat reads almost like a stage play. ![]() If you like your melodrama with a capital “M” and lots of exclamation points, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Bat is the book for you. ![]()
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