Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific American writer who dealt mostly in the mystery genre. She is considered to have created the Had I but know... school of mystery writing and also coined the term - "The Butler did it." She also wrote comedies, nurse fiction and what is also considered "mainstream" fiction (which were often reprinted as romance novels - even though romance may not have a key feature in them). Rinehart does not appear to have had a happy married life and in her romance/mainstream fiction novels the husbands are always portrayed in a negative light but she was a very loving mother and motherhood is always shown as one of the crowning achievements that a woman can accomplish.

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Books

Fiction

  • The Window at the White Cat (1910)
  • Where There's a Will (1912)
  • The Cave on Thundercloud (1912)
  • Mind Over Motor (1912)
  • The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)
  • The After House (1914)
  • K (1915)
  • The Amazing Interlude (1918)
  • Dangerous Days (1919)
  • Salvage (1919)
  • A Poor Wise Man (1920)
  • The Truce of God (1920)
  • The Breaking Point (1922)
  • The Red Lamp (1925)
  • The Mystery Lamp (1925)
  • Two Flights Up (1928)
  • This Strange Adventure (1929)
  • The Door (1930)
  • The Double Alibi (1932)
  • The Bat (1932) (with Avery Hopwood)
  • The Album (1933)
  • The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933)
  • The Wall (1938)
  • The Great Mistake (1940)
  • The Yellow Room (1945)
  • The Confession (1946)
  • Sight Unseen (1946)
  • The Swimming Pool (1952)
  • The Wandering Knife (1952)
  • The Frightened Wife (1953)
  • The Street of Seven Stars (1966)

Non-Fiction

  • My Story (1931)

Series/Related Titles

Hilda Adams

  • Miss Pinkerton (1932)
  • Haunted Lady (1942)
  • Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950)

Letitia (Tish) Carberry

  • The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911)
  • Tish (1916)
  • More Tish (1921)
  • The Book of Tish (1926)
  • Tish Plays the Game (1926)
  • Tish Marches On (1937)

Miss Cornelia Van Gorder

  • 1. The Man in Lower Ten (1906)
  • 2. The Circular Staircase (1908)

Awards/Honors

The Rinehart career was crowned with a Mystery Writers of America Special Award a year after she published her last novel ... and by the award, as early as 1923, of an honorary Doctorate in Literature from George Washington University.