description: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder has left her New York City home for a vacation in an isolated country mansion with her beautiful young niece, neurotic maid, pompous butler and a mysterious but genteel young man, only to find herself the victim of an elusive master criminal, The Bat.The spirited and headstrong spinster is not easily fazed until one stormy night when she stumbles on a corpse. She musters all her nerves to play the vicious killer's deadly game and confront The Bat once and for all. The Bat, which draws from The Circular Staircase but adds some new plot complexities, namely the villainous Bat, shows Rinehart at the height of her career and is considered her greatest work.
language: English
title: The Bat
titlecomplete: The Bat
characters: Billy the gardener, Dale Ogden, Lizzie Allen (The Bat), The Bat, Detective Anderson, Cornelia Van Gorder
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 955
publisher: Tantor Media