10.) The Buckled Bag by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart is known for as the “American Agatha Christie,” even though her first mystery novel was published forty years before her brutish counterpart. Thusly I believe Christie had the advantage of the change in styling and times, as her mysteries are easier for this Nerdette to read through, yet Rinehart was painstakingly slow and dull. These are the only crimes against “The Buckled Bag,” with great attention to detail, a truly baffling mystery but can be and is dull. The details are finite on the background which lend little to the clues, and the pacing is slow made for readers who are ready to submerge themselves into the plot. To the story’s credit, it is short only 89 pages long.