"Stilted language and a tendency to treat the most sensational plot developments with the brio usually reserved for section headings in doctoral dissertations: a ho-hum debut."
Downing, the co-founder of Women Writing the West and co-author of Crown of Life: The Story of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1992), tries her hand at fiction with iffy results.
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With ennobling admiration, the authors press their subject's life and times into ``faction.'' Nurse, WW I journalist, advocate of Native American rights, mystery writer, wife, mother—Rinehart packed plenty of spunk and knew when to show it; scenes of her as a teenager staunchly enduring the wretched conditions of late- 19th-century hospital work are vivid and shocking.
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