Where There's a Will...

 

by Mary Roberts Rinehart (read by Paula Faye Leinweber) c. 1912

Library Loan

 

 

 

 

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 07-16-19

Language: English

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Publisher's Summary

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.

Hope Springs Eternal!

Still fresh over a hundred years later! Loved it! What a hoot!  Pure farce. Post and Kellogg, eat your hearts out. The sanitarium business skewered and debunked. Adorable, light-hearted romp in the back-woods of middle America of the early 20th century. The reader has the perfect voice for the story and I love the slang in this one. One of these days I will really have to start writing down all the little turns of phrase that I always thought were new in my youth that are in truth much older than that.

Three and a half stars