The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a captivating and suspenseful novel that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. The story follows the struggles of a wealthy family facing financial ruin, a troubled marriage, and a series of mysterious accidents that threaten their safety.

Rinehart's skillful writing and attention to detail make the characters come to life, and the plot is rife with twists and turns that keep readers guessing until the very last page. The tension builds steadily throughout the novel, drawing readers deeper into the story with each passing chapter.

The Breaking Point is a masterfully crafted mystery that will appeal to fans of suspenseful dramas and intricate plotlines. Mary Roberts Rinehart's talent for storytelling shines through in this gripping tale of greed, betrayal, and ultimately, redemption.

Book Description:
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what today is called "repressed memory," as she takes Dick into his past, and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth century.(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)