num_pages: 331
description: Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy womans mansion in this mystery from a New York Times bestselling author with ten million books in print.In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society in the small town of Beverly she has a table long enough to seat one hundred and she keeps an iron grip on the guest list. Her right-hand woman is Pat Abbott a local girl who is beautiful innocent and kind. Pat has no idea how cutthroat high society can be but shes about to get a deadly first lesson. Pat has fallen head over heels in love with Mauds son Tony a clever young rake with a single his vicious gold-digging wife. At the same time that she is dangerously infatuated with a married man Pats world is turned upside down by a series of attacks on the estateand a truly shocking murder. To save Tony and Maud Pat must find the killer. But the list of suspects is as long as one of Mauds guest When a woman has room at her table for one hundred friends shell have more than her share of enemies. Anyone who aspires to become a writer said the New York Times  could not do better than to study carefully the methods of Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Great Mistake is a classic example of the golden age murder mystery at its best. 
language: English
title: The Great Mistake
publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road