The Case of Jennie Brice

{{Short description|1913 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart}}

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| caption = First edition

| author = Mary Roberts Rinehart

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| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Novel

| publisher = Bobbs-Merrill Company

| release_date = 1913

| media_type = Print (hardback)

| pages = 227

| oclc = 220715835

| preceded_by = Mind Over Motor

| followed_by = Street of Seven Stars

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The Case of Jennie Brice is a 1913 crime novel by the American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1956) set in 1904 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907.

Plot

A blood-stained rope, and towel, and a missing tenant, Jennie Brice—all of which convince Mrs. Pittman that a murder has been committed in her boarding house. But without a body, the police say there is no case. Pittman tries to ferret out the killer by using the key to Jennie's apartment to investigate.

References

  • {{cite book | author=Demarest, David P. | title=From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1976 | isbn=0-8229-1123-X}}
  • {{cite book | author=Rinehart, Mary Roberts | title=The Case of Jennie Brice | location=Indianapolis | publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company | year=1913}}