Where There’s a Will

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber

Where There’s a Will is Mary Roberts Rinehart’s hilarious comedy involving a health spa, an heir, a would-be princess, and an impostor. The story is told by Minnie, who has essentially run the spa for years and inherited the care of its famous spring from her father. When the old doctor dies and leaves the Hope Springs Spa to his near-do-well grandson with the stipulation that he live on premises for two months in order to inherit, the grandson is nowhere to be found. So Minnie tries to save the spa by enlisting the help of family and friends to trick the lawyer and keep the spa running.

Public Domain (P)2019 Paula Faye Leinweber

The American Queen of Mystery doing more of a Jane Austen

While this is a funny and well written book, I always associate this author with fabulous mysteries. This was a bath house comedy with characters that did absolutely nothing for me. I kept wondering whether there was going to be a bit of intrigue, but it really was a formula Jane Austen/ borderline Harlequin romance. For its time it probably was funny and even risque. But in the twenty first century it doesn't carry it's age well.