Two Flights Up
Author: first_name: Mary Roberts
last_name: Rinehart
Language: English
Year: 1928

Two Flights Up is a story of how class distinctions and pretensions shape life in a medium-sized American town. The plot involves crime and investigation, but it is not exactly a mystery novel in the usual sense of the term. After her husband went to prison ten years ago for stealing bonds from a bank, a woman has been trying to maintain her image of the family prestige for herself, her sister, and her daughter, with very little money. As the story opens they take in a lodger, who becomes entang