Mrs. Pittman is missing a tenant. Young Jenny Brice has vanished, leaving behind a blood-stained rope and towel. Could it be murder? With no body to show the police, the determined landlady must solve the case herself. This 1913 mystery is set in Rinehart’s home town of Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh.
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I had a hard time getting through this one. The narrator was very intrusive into the story, inserting herself and her ideas into the clues, and didn't take care to share the clues chronologically. It took me weeks to work my way through the book, and the way it doubled back on itself multiple times made it really hard to make out what was really going on. Not one of Rinehart's best efforts, but I did enjoy the boarding-house owner who's the narrator of the tale—just not her fashion of sharing what happened during the flood at her house!
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