With millions of copies of her books in print, Mary Roberts Rinehart remains America's first lady of mystery fiction - the ultimate practitioner of baffling, thought-provoking tales of spine-tingling suspense... <p> "The Bat" - Neither death threats nor unearthly sights and sounds can budge rich, eccentric Miss Cornelia Van Gorder from the isolated mansion she shares with a pretty niece, hysterical maid, laconic butler, and nice young man who just might be an embezzler. Even knowing she is a prime target for the elusive killer known as The Bat doesn't faze her. Until the storm-swept night she gets her chance at a deadly game of detection - and her turn at The Bat! <p> "The Haunted Lady" - Eliza Fairbanks may be old, but she is hardly senile. So when she claims to have found bats in her bedroom and arsenic in her strawberries, Miss Pinkerton is promptly assigned to the case. And it doesn't take the shrewd nurse-detective long to discover that Mrs. Fairbanks is quite sane after all. Quite sane, and quite dead... <p> "The Yellow Room" - Carol Spencer has just left her family's Park Avenue apartment to open the summer home in Maine. But when she arrives, she discovers that the servants have vanished and the telephones have been removed. All of which she could set to rights, if it weren't for the corpse in the linen closet - and the circle of danger rapidly closing around her...