He who sows the wind, reaps the tempest.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart

Author Name:

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Born As:

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Other Names:

Born:

12 Aug 1876

Died:

22 Sep 1958




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Novelist and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Novels and plays:

The Circular Staircase - 1908
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 - 1914
K - 1915
Bab, a Sub-Deb - 1916
Long live the King! - 1917
The Amazing Interlude - 1918
Tenting To-Night - 1918
Dangerous Days - 1919
Salvage - 1919
A Poor Wise Man - 1920
The Bat - 1920
The Breaking Point - 1922
The Red Lamp - 1925
The Mystery Lamp - 1925
Two Flights Up - 1928
The Truce of God - 1920
The Door - 1930
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 - Special Edgar Award, 1954

Series:

Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
The Man in Lower Ten - 1906
The Circular Staircase - 1907
"The Bat" - 1920
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
Lost Ecstasy - 1927

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.                          
Husband Stanley Marshall Rinehart, three sons: Stanley Jr., Frederick, and Alan.                          
The phrase "The butler did it", 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. Tim Kelly adapted Rinehart's play "The Butler Did It."