title: The Case of Jenny Brice (World Clissics in Large Print: American Authors)
author: Rinehart. Mary Roberts
description: Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922. Rinehart is considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908).
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  Bridie Hallifax, is the pen name of Bronwyn Hall, who lives and writes in
  Melbourne, Australia. _Not in a Billion Years_ is her first novel and is the
  winner of Romance Writers Australia’s 2019 _Emerald Award._
  
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