TY - SER KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - physicians KW - Railroad Strike of 1877 KW - theater industry KW - actors and actresses KW - floods KW - boarding houses KW - vaudeville KW - pharmacists KW - police KW - steamboats KW - private investigators AU - Mary Roberts Rinehart AU - M. Leone Bracker AB - When Mrs. Pitman notices a bloodstained rope and towel and a missing tenant (actress Jennie Brice), she's convinced that there's been a murder in her boarding house. The police, however, say there is no case without a body, so Pitman tries to ferret out the killer on her own. C1 - 1907 C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; North Side; Pittsburgh, Downtown, Union Station; Shadyside; Shadyside Hospital; Sewickley; Beaver County; Beaver C4 - Mystery; Women’s CY - Indianapolis LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Shadyside Hospital is Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital; Union Station is Penn Station; North Side is Allegheny City. N2 - When Mrs. Pitman notices a bloodstained rope and towel and a missing tenant (actress Jennie Brice), she's convinced that there's been a murder in her boarding house. The police, however, say there is no case without a body, so Pitman tries to ferret out the killer on her own. PB - Bobbs-Merrill PP - Indianapolis PY - 1913 RN - Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), born in Allegheny City, Allegheny, was a graduate of Allegheny High School. She was a celebrated and prolific writer of more than 50 murder mysteries, 8 plays, and hundreds of stories and poems. While a nurse in Pittsburgh, she married Dr. Stanley Rinehart, but she started writing in 1903 to earn money after her husband's stock market loss. Her early success led her to purchase a mansion in Sewickley. Rinehart's stage play The Bat (1920) was adapted into film and inspired comic-book writer Bob Crane with his 1939 superhero Batman published by DC Comics. With her sons, Rinehart founded the New York publishing house of Rinehart & Company and served as its director. Rinehart died in New York City; she is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. M. Leone Bracker (1885-1937), born in Rye, New Hampshire, was an illustrator of war posters. EP - 227 p. TI - The Case of Jenny Brice ER -