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    The Lipstick: Mary Roberts Rinehart Elementary Detective

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    The document provides a summary of the short story "The Lipstick" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It is rated positively with 17 votes. The summary notes that the story is a crime/detective genre set in American English. It is described as being at an elementary reading level and of shorter length. The excerpt provided hints that the main character attended an inquest into their cousin Elinor's death, but questions if it was truly a suicide after learning she was using lipstick right before falling from a window.

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    The Lipstick

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Level: elementary
    Genre: crime, detective
    Length: shorter
    English: american

    Rating: +17 (from 25 votes)


    I was at the inquest. It was because of Elinor’s death. My cousin Elinor Hammond had gone
    happily through life, as if she woke each morning wondering what would be the most fun
    that day; stretching her long lovely body between her silk sheets. But now she is dead. They all
    thought it was a suicide. But I was not sure. I either was sure about she was killed when learnt
    that she using her lipstick a minute before she felt from window…

    Total words: 5163


    Unique words: 885

    Words, you might not know:

    inquest, bitter, anxiety, coroner, relieved, graze.

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