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BIOGRAPHY

Rinehart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1876. Her father was a frustrated inventor, and throughout her childhood, the family often had financial problems. She was Left-handed at a time when that was considered inappropriate, and she was trained to use her right hand instead. She married Dr. Stanley M. Rinehart in 1896. She died in New York City , where she had been living for some time.


WRITING

Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles.

While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries.

The phrase "The butler did it", which has become a Cliché , came from Rinehart's novel ''The Door'', in which the butler actually ''did'' do it, although that exact phrase does not actually appear in the work. {Link without Title}


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Novels and plays


  • ''Seven Days'' (Broadway comedy, 1909)

  • ''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)

  • ''Street of Seven Stars'' (1914)

  • ''The After House : a story of love, mystery and a private yacht'' (1914)

  • ''K'' (1915)

  • ''Bab, a Sub-Deb'' (1917)

  • ''Long live the King!'' (1917)

  • ''The Amazing Interlude'' (1918)

  • ''Dangerous Days'' (1919)

  • ''Salvage'' (1919)

  • ''A Poor Wise Man'' (1920)

  • ''The Breaking Point'' (1922)

  • ''The Red Lamp'' (1925)

  • ''The Mystery Lamp'' (1925)

  • ''Two Flights Up'' (1928)

  • ''The Door'' (1930)

  • ''The Bat'' (with Avery Hopwood , 1932)

  • ''The Double Alibi'' (1932)

  • ''The Album'' (1933)

  • ''The State Vs Elinor Norton'' (1933)

  • ''The Wall'' (1938)

  • ''The Great Mistake'' (1940)

  • ''The Yellow Room'' (1945)

  • ''The Swimming Pool'' (1952)

  • ''The Wandering Knife'' (1952)

  • ''The Frightened Wife'' (1953)



Series

  • Miss Cornelia Van Gorder

  • ---''The Man in Lower Ten'' (1906)

  • ---''The Circular Staircase'' (1907)

  • 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)

  • Hilda Adams

  • ---''Miss Pinkerton'' (1932)

  • ---''Haunted Lady'' (1942)

  • ---''Episode of the Wandering Knife'' (1950)



Collections


  • ''Love Stories'' (1919)

  • ''Affinities : and other stories'' (1920)

  • ''Sight Unseen / The Confession (omnibus)'' (1921)

  • ''Temperamental People'' (1924)

  • ''Nomad's Land'' (1926)

  • ''The Romantics'' (1929)

  • ''Mary Roberts Rinehart 's Crime Book'' (1933)

  • ''Married People'' (1937)

  • ''Familiar faces; stories of people you know'' (1941)

  • ''Alibi for Isabel'' (1944)

  • ''The Confession / Sight Unseen'' (1959)



Autobiography


  • ''My Story'' (1931, revised 1948)



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