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Mary Roberts Rinehart

January 01, 1970

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie.[1] Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did it" plot device in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines.[2]

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1914)
BornMary Ella Roberts
(1876-08-12)August 12, 1876
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh), U.S.
DiedSeptember 22, 1958(1958-09-22) (aged 82)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter
GenreMystery fiction
RelativesOlive Louise (Roberts) Barton

Biography edit

 
Rinehart lunching after a morning's trouting on Flathead River, Glacier National Park (c. 1921)

Rinehart was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh. A sister, Olive Louise, four years Mary's junior, would later gain recognition as an author of children's books and as a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist.[3] Her father was a frustrated inventor, and throughout her childhood, the family often had financial problems. Her father committed suicide when Mary was 19 years old. Tending to be left-handed at a time when that was considered disadvantageous, she was trained to use her right hand instead.

She attended public schools and graduated at age 16, then enrolled at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. She described the experience as "all the tragedy of the world under one roof." After graduation, she married Stanley Marshall Rinehart (1867–1932), a physician she had met there. They had three sons: Stanley Jr., Alan, and Frederick.

During the stock market crash of 1903, the couple lost their savings, spurring Rinehart's efforts at writing as a way to earn income. She was 27 that year, and produced 45 short stories. In 1907, she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that propelled her to national fame. According to her obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1958, the book sold 1.25 million copies. Her regular contributions to The Saturday Evening Post were immensely popular and helped the magazine mold American middle-class taste and manners.

In 1911, after the publication of five successful books and two plays, the Rineharts moved to the Pittsburgh suburb of Glen Osborne, where they purchased a large home at the corner of Orchard and Linden Streets called "Cassella." Before they could move into the house, however, Mrs. Rinehart had to have it completely rebuilt because it had fallen into disrepair. "The venture was mine, and I had put every dollar I possessed into the purchase. All week long I wrote wildly to meet the payroll and contractor costs,” she wrote in her autobiography. In 1925, the Rineharts sold the house to the Marks family; the house was demolished in 1969.[4] Today, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park sits in the borough of Glen Osborne at 1414 Beaver Street, Sewickley, Pennsylvania.[5]

Rinehart's commercial success sometimes conflicted with her expected domestic roles of wife and mother, yet she often pursued adventure, including a job as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post at the Belgian front during World War I.[6] During her time in Belgium, she interviewed Albert I of Belgium, Winston Churchill and Mary of Teck, writing of the latter "This afternoon I am to be presented to the queen of England. I am to curtsey and to say 'Your majesty,' the first time!"[7] Rinehart was working in Europe in 1918 to report on developments to the War Department and was in Paris when the armistice was signed.[8]

In 1922, the family moved to Washington, DC, when Dr. Rinehart was appointed to a post in the Veterans Administration. She was a member of the Literary Society of Washington from 1932 to 1936.[9] Her husband died in 1932, but she continued to live in Washington until 1935, when she moved to New York City. There she helped her sons found the publishing house Farrar & Rinehart, serving as its director.

She also maintained a vacation home in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 1947, a Filipino chef who had worked for her for 25 years fired a gun at her and then attempted to slash her with knives until other servants rescued her. The chef committed suicide in his cell the next day.[10]

Rinehart suffered from breast cancer, which led to a radical mastectomy. She eventually went public with her story, at a time when such matters were not openly discussed. The interview "I Had Cancer" was published in a 1947 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal; in it, Rinehart encouraged women to have breast examinations.

Rinehart received a Mystery Writers of America special award a year after she published her last novel, and an honorary doctorate in literature from George Washington University.[1]

On November 9, 1956, Rinehart appeared on the interview program Person to Person.[11] She died at age 82 at her apartment at 630 Park Avenue in New York City.[12]

Writing edit

 
House where Mary Roberts Rinehart lived, and wrote The Circular Staircase at 954 Beech Avenue in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of her short stories, books, and plays were adapted for movies, such as Bab: A Sub-Deb (1917), The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), Miss Pinkerton (1932), and The Bat (1959 remake). The novel The Circular Staircase was first adapted to the screen as a silent film in 1915, and later as an episode in the TV show Climax! in 1956. In 1933 RCA Victor released The Bat as one of the early talking book recordings. She co-wrote the 1920 play The Bat which was later adapted into the 1930 film The Bat Whispers. The latter influenced Bob Kane in the creation of Batman's iconography.

Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper starred in I Take This Woman (1931), an early sound film based on Rinehart's novel Lost Ecstasy (1927).

While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Rinehart, in The Circular Staircase (1908), is credited with inventing the "Had-I-but-Known" school of mystery writing. The Had-I-But-Known mystery novel is one where the principal character (frequently female) does things in connection with a crime that have the effect of prolonging the action of the novel. In The Circular Staircase "a middle-aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer. The gentle, peace-loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt."[13] Ogden Nash parodied the school in his poem Don't Guess Let Me Tell You: "Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor."

The phrase "The butler did it" came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did murder someone, although that exact phrase does not appear in the work.[14][15] Tim Kelly adapted Rinehart's play into a musical, The Butler Did It, Singing. This play includes five lead female roles and five lead male roles.

She followed her initial success with The Man in Lower Ten, another novel that continued to reinforce her fame. After these two, Rinehart published about a book a year. She also wrote a long series of comic stories about Letitia (Tish) Carberry, that was frequented in the Saturday Evening Post over a number of years. This was later made into a series of novels by Rinehart that started with The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry in 1911.

After her fiction writing era, Rinehart worked as a correspondent during World War I. She became "obsessed by the injustice, the wanton waste and cost" of the war, and wrote extensively of the things she had seen in 10 articles for the Saturday Evening Post, which were later republished in the London Times. During this time she interviewed many famous historical figures, including Albert I of Belgium, Winston Churchill, French General Ferdinand Foch, and Mary of Teck. The notes from her interview with Albert the I she sent to President Wilson in the hopes of swaying him from neutrality to fight alongside the Belgians, though it didn't immediately work. Her articles were later published as a collection titled "Kings, Queens and Pawns" in 1915. She never stopped working to serve her country and tell the stories of the men fighting in World War I.[2]

Afterwards, she continued to write many novels and even began writing plays. Although she was greatly remembered for her plays Seven Days in 1909 and The Bat in 1920, Rinehart will always be most remembered for her mystery novels, which paved the way for the current generation of mystery writers.

She had written an autobiography, My Story, in 1931, which later was revised in 1948. During her prime, Rinehart was said to be even more famous than her rival, the great Agatha Christie. At the time of Rinehart's death, her books had sold over 10 million copies.

Works edit

 
Program for the 1920 play The Bat

Novels edit

  • The Circular Staircase (1908) Adapted (with Avery Hopwood) for the stage as The Bat
  • The Man in Lower Ten (1909)
  • The Window at the White Cat (1910) Revision of The Mystery of 1122
  • When A Man Marries, or Seven Days (1910) Expansion of Rinehart's 1908 novella Seven Days
  • Where There's a Will (1912)
  • The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)
  • The Street of Seven Stars (1914)
  • The After House: A Story of Love, Mystery and a Private Yacht (1914)
  • K. (1915)
  • Bab, a Sub-Deb (1916)
  • Long Live the King! (1917)
  • The Amazing Interlude (1918)
  • Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave (1918)
  • Dangerous Days (1919)
  • A Poor Wise Man (1920)
  • The Truce of God (1920)
  • Sight Unseen (1921)
  • The Confession (1921)
  • The Breaking Point (1922)
  • The Red Lamp (1925) Alternate title The Mystery Lamp
  • The Bat (1926) Novelization of play, credited to Rinehart and Hopwood, but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét
  • Lost Ecstasy (1927) Alternate title I Take This Woman
  • This Strange Adventure (1928)
  • Two Flights Up (1928)
  • The Door (1930)
  • The Double Alibi (1932)
  • The Album (1933)
  • The State vs. Elinor Norton (1933)
  • The Doctor (1936)
  • The Wall (1938)
  • The Great Mistake (1940)
  • The Haunted Lady (1942)
  • The Yellow Room (1945)
  • A Light in the Window (1948)
  • The Swimming Pool (1952)

Series edit

Letitia (Tish) Carberry edit

  • The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911)
  • Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions (1916)
  • More Tish (1921)
  • Tish Plays the Game (1926)
  • Tish Marches On (1937)

Hilda Adams edit

  • The Buckled Bag (1914)
  • Miss Pinkerton (1932) Alternate title The Double Alibi
  • The Haunted Lady (1942) Sequel to Miss Pinkerton
  • Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950)

Short story collections edit

  • Love Stories (1919)
  • Affinities and Other Stories (1920)
  • Temperamental People (1924)
  • The Romantics (1929)
  • Married People (1937)
  • Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know (1941)
  • Alibi for Isabel and Other Stories (1944)
  • The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories (1953) Special Edgar Award, 1954

Plays edit

Nonfiction edit

  • "Faces and Brains," Photoplay, February 1922, p. 47.
  • Kings, Queens, and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915) A collection of Rinehart's reports as a correspondent during World War I
  • Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton (1916)
  • The Altar of Freedom: An Appeal to the Mothers of America (1917) An appeal to prepare for the coming war
  • Tenting Tonight: A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains (1918) First published in Cosmopolitan (1917)[16]
  • The Out Trail (1923)[17][unreliable source]
  • Nomad's Land (1926)[18]
  • My Story (1931; revised 1948) Rinehart's autobiography

Essays edit

  • "Isn't That Just Like a Man!" (1920) Available in one volume with "Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!" by Irvin S. Cobb
  • "Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls"

Film and TV adaptations edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Keating, H.R.F., The Bedside Companion to Crime. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989, p. 170. ISBN 0-89296-416-2
  2. ^ a b Atwood, Katherine (2014). Women Heroes of World War I. Chicago Review Press. pp. 186–195. ISBN 978-1-61374-686-8.
  3. ^ "Cloud boat stories by Barton, Olive Roberts, 1880-1957; Winter, Milo, 1888-1956, illustrator". Internet Archives. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  4. ^ . mrrnaturepark.org. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013.
  5. ^ "Home: Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park". mrrnaturepark.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013.
  6. ^ MacLeod, Charlotte (1994). "Chapter 20: On Active Duty". Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart. New York: Mysterious Press. ISBN 0-89296-444-8.
  7. ^ Rinehart, Mary. "World War I Notebook – Note Pad with Cover Missing" (PDF). Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
  8. ^ Doolittle, Alice. "Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers Finding Aid". Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
  9. ^ Spauling, Thomas M. (1947). The Literary Society in Peace and War. Washington, D.C.: George Banta Publishing Company.
  10. ^ Dubose, Martha Hailey (December 11, 2000). Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists. St. Martin's Publishing. ISBN 9780312276553.
  11. ^ "Person to Person Episode #4.9 (TV Episode 1956)". IMDb.
  12. ^ "Mary Roberts Rinehart Is Dead; Author of Mysteries and Plays New York Times, September 23, 1958.
  13. ^ Roseman, Mill et al. Detectionary. New York: Overlook Press, 1971. ISBN 0-87951-041-2
  14. ^ "The Straight Dope: In whodunits, "the butler did it." Who did it first?". straightdope.com. September 26, 2003.
  15. ^ Nate Pedersen, "Why do we think the butler did it?", The Guardian, 9 Dec 2010
  16. ^ Roberts Rinehart, Mary (1918). Tenting Tonight: A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and Cascade Mountains, with Illustrations.
  17. ^ Roberts Rinehart, Mary (1923). The Out Trail.
  18. ^ Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1926). Nomad's Land. New York: George H. Doran Company.

Further reading edit

  • Cohn, Jan (2005) [1980]. Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5912-7.
  • Evans, Delight. "The Mother of the Sub-Deb," Photoplay, January 1920, p. 74. MRR profile.
  • Kudum, Karthikeya (February 2, 2019). "Mary Roberts Rinehart: The American Agatha Christie". Technologies of Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era. Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College.
  • MacLeod, Charlotte (1994). Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart. New York: Mysterious Press. ISBN 0-89296-444-8.
  • "Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers 1831-1970, SC.1958.03". Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh.

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mary, roberts, rinehart, august, 1876, september, 1958, american, writer, often, called, american, agatha, christie, rinehart, published, first, mystery, novel, circular, staircase, 1908, which, introduced, known, narrative, style, rinehart, also, considered, . Mary Roberts Rinehart August 12 1876 September 22 1958 was an American writer often called the American Agatha Christie 1 Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908 which introduced the had I but known narrative style Rinehart is also considered the source of the butler did it plot device in her novel The Door 1930 although the exact phrase does not appear in her work She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines 2 Mary Roberts RinehartMary Roberts Rinehart 1914 BornMary Ella Roberts 1876 08 12 August 12 1876Allegheny City Pennsylvania now Pittsburgh U S DiedSeptember 22 1958 1958 09 22 aged 82 New York City U S OccupationWriterGenreMystery fictionRelativesOlive Louise Roberts Barton Contents 1 Biography 2 Writing 3 Works 3 1 Novels 3 2 Series 3 3 Letitia Tish Carberry 3 4 Hilda Adams 3 5 Short story collections 3 6 Plays 3 7 Nonfiction 3 8 Essays 4 Film and TV adaptations 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links 8 1 Electronic editionsBiography edit nbsp Rinehart lunching after a morning s trouting on Flathead River Glacier National Park c 1921 Rinehart was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City Pennsylvania now a part of Pittsburgh A sister Olive Louise four years Mary s junior would later gain recognition as an author of children s books and as a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist 3 Her father was a frustrated inventor and throughout her childhood the family often had financial problems Her father committed suicide when Mary was 19 years old Tending to be left handed at a time when that was considered disadvantageous she was trained to use her right hand instead She attended public schools and graduated at age 16 then enrolled at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital where she graduated in 1896 She described the experience as all the tragedy of the world under one roof After graduation she married Stanley Marshall Rinehart 1867 1932 a physician she had met there They had three sons Stanley Jr Alan and Frederick During the stock market crash of 1903 the couple lost their savings spurring Rinehart s efforts at writing as a way to earn income She was 27 that year and produced 45 short stories In 1907 she wrote The Circular Staircase the novel that propelled her to national fame According to her obituary in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in 1958 the book sold 1 25 million copies Her regular contributions to The Saturday Evening Post were immensely popular and helped the magazine mold American middle class taste and manners In 1911 after the publication of five successful books and two plays the Rineharts moved to the Pittsburgh suburb of Glen Osborne where they purchased a large home at the corner of Orchard and Linden Streets called Cassella Before they could move into the house however Mrs Rinehart had to have it completely rebuilt because it had fallen into disrepair The venture was mine and I had put every dollar I possessed into the purchase All week long I wrote wildly to meet the payroll and contractor costs she wrote in her autobiography In 1925 the Rineharts sold the house to the Marks family the house was demolished in 1969 4 Today a Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park sits in the borough of Glen Osborne at 1414 Beaver Street Sewickley Pennsylvania 5 Rinehart s commercial success sometimes conflicted with her expected domestic roles of wife and mother yet she often pursued adventure including a job as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post at the Belgian front during World War I 6 During her time in Belgium she interviewed Albert I of Belgium Winston Churchill and Mary of Teck writing of the latter This afternoon I am to be presented to the queen of England I am to curtsey and to say Your majesty the first time 7 Rinehart was working in Europe in 1918 to report on developments to the War Department and was in Paris when the armistice was signed 8 In 1922 the family moved to Washington DC when Dr Rinehart was appointed to a post in the Veterans Administration She was a member of the Literary Society of Washington from 1932 to 1936 9 Her husband died in 1932 but she continued to live in Washington until 1935 when she moved to New York City There she helped her sons found the publishing house Farrar amp Rinehart serving as its director She also maintained a vacation home in Bar Harbor Maine In 1947 a Filipino chef who had worked for her for 25 years fired a gun at her and then attempted to slash her with knives until other servants rescued her The chef committed suicide in his cell the next day 10 Rinehart suffered from breast cancer which led to a radical mastectomy She eventually went public with her story at a time when such matters were not openly discussed The interview I Had Cancer was published in a 1947 issue of the Ladies Home Journal in it Rinehart encouraged women to have breast examinations Rinehart received a Mystery Writers of America special award a year after she published her last novel and an honorary doctorate in literature from George Washington University 1 On November 9 1956 Rinehart appeared on the interview program Person to Person 11 She died at age 82 at her apartment at 630 Park Avenue in New York City 12 Writing edit nbsp House where Mary Roberts Rinehart lived and wrote The Circular Staircase at 954 Beech Avenue in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories poems travelogues and articles Many of her short stories books and plays were adapted for movies such as Bab A Sub Deb 1917 The Bat 1926 The Bat Whispers 1930 Miss Pinkerton 1932 and The Bat 1959 remake The novel The Circular Staircase was first adapted to the screen as a silent film in 1915 and later as an episode in the TV show Climax in 1956 In 1933 RCA Victor released The Bat as one of the early talking book recordings She co wrote the 1920 play The Bat which was later adapted into the 1930 film The Bat Whispers The latter influenced Bob Kane in the creation of Batman s iconography Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper starred in I Take This Woman 1931 an early sound film based on Rinehart s novel Lost Ecstasy 1927 While many of her books were best sellers critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries Rinehart in The Circular Staircase 1908 is credited with inventing the Had I but Known school of mystery writing The Had I But Known mystery novel is one where the principal character frequently female does things in connection with a crime that have the effect of prolonging the action of the novel In The Circular Staircase a middle aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer The gentle peace loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt 13 Ogden Nash parodied the school in his poem Don t Guess Let Me Tell You Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor The phrase The butler did it came from Rinehart s novel The Door in which the butler actually did murder someone although that exact phrase does not appear in the work 14 15 Tim Kelly adapted Rinehart s play into a musical The Butler Did It Singing This play includes five lead female roles and five lead male roles She followed her initial success with The Man in Lower Ten another novel that continued to reinforce her fame After these two Rinehart published about a book a year She also wrote a long series of comic stories about Letitia Tish Carberry that was frequented in the Saturday Evening Post over a number of years This was later made into a series of novels by Rinehart that started with The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry in 1911 After her fiction writing era Rinehart worked as a correspondent during World War I She became obsessed by the injustice the wanton waste and cost of the war and wrote extensively of the things she had seen in 10 articles for the Saturday Evening Post which were later republished in the London Times During this time she interviewed many famous historical figures including Albert I of Belgium Winston Churchill French General Ferdinand Foch and Mary of Teck The notes from her interview with Albert the I she sent to President Wilson in the hopes of swaying him from neutrality to fight alongside the Belgians though it didn t immediately work Her articles were later published as a collection titled Kings Queens and Pawns in 1915 She never stopped working to serve her country and tell the stories of the men fighting in World War I 2 Afterwards she continued to write many novels and even began writing plays Although she was greatly remembered for her plays Seven Days in 1909 and The Bat in 1920 Rinehart will always be most remembered for her mystery novels which paved the way for the current generation of mystery writers She had written an autobiography My Story in 1931 which later was revised in 1948 During her prime Rinehart was said to be even more famous than her rival the great Agatha Christie At the time of Rinehart s death her books had sold over 10 million copies Works edit nbsp Program for the 1920 play The Bat Novels edit The Circular Staircase 1908 Adapted with Avery Hopwood for the stage as The Bat The Man in Lower Ten 1909 The Window at the White Cat 1910 Revision of The Mystery of 1122 When A Man Marries or Seven Days 1910 Expansion of Rinehart s 1908 novella Seven Days Where There s a Will 1912 The Case of Jennie Brice 1913 The Street of Seven Stars 1914 The After House A Story of Love Mystery and a Private Yacht 1914 K 1915 Bab a Sub Deb 1916 Long Live the King 1917 The Amazing Interlude 1918 Twenty Three and a Half Hours Leave 1918 Dangerous Days 1919 A Poor Wise Man 1920 The Truce of God 1920 Sight Unseen 1921 The Confession 1921 The Breaking Point 1922 The Red Lamp 1925 Alternate title The Mystery Lamp The Bat 1926 Novelization of play credited to Rinehart and Hopwood but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benet Lost Ecstasy 1927 Alternate title I Take This Woman This Strange Adventure 1928 Two Flights Up 1928 The Door 1930 The Double Alibi 1932 The Album 1933 The State vs Elinor Norton 1933 The Doctor 1936 The Wall 1938 The Great Mistake 1940 The Haunted Lady 1942 The Yellow Room 1945 A Light in the Window 1948 The Swimming Pool 1952 Series edit Letitia Tish Carberry edit The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry 1911 Tish The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions 1916 More Tish 1921 Tish Plays the Game 1926 Tish Marches On 1937 Hilda Adams edit The Buckled Bag 1914 Miss Pinkerton 1932 Alternate title The Double Alibi The Haunted Lady 1942 Sequel to Miss Pinkerton Episode of the Wandering Knife 1950 Short story collections edit Love Stories 1919 Affinities and Other Stories 1920 Temperamental People 1924 The Romantics 1929 Married People 1937 Familiar Faces Stories of People You Know 1941 Alibi for Isabel and Other Stories 1944 The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories 1953 Special Edgar Award 1954 Plays edit The Double Life 1906 Seven Days 1909 with Avery Hopwood Cheer Up 1912 Produced and directed by Cecil B DeMille Tumble In 1919 with Avery Hopwood Musical version of Seven Days The Bat 1920 with Avery Hopwood Spanish Love 1920 with Avery Hopwood The Breaking Point 1923 Nonfiction edit Faces and Brains Photoplay February 1922 p 47 Kings Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front 1915 A collection of Rinehart s reports as a correspondent during World War I Through Glacier Park Seeing America First with Howard Eaton 1916 The Altar of Freedom An Appeal to the Mothers of America 1917 An appeal to prepare for the coming war Tenting Tonight A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains 1918 First published in Cosmopolitan 1917 16 The Out Trail 1923 17 unreliable source Nomad s Land 1926 18 My Story 1931 revised 1948 Rinehart s autobiography Essays edit Isn t That Just Like a Man 1920 Available in one volume with Oh Well You Know How Women Are by Irvin S Cobb Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls Film and TV adaptations edit1914 Jane it short film 1914 At the Foot of the Hill it short film 1915 The Cave on Thunder Cloud it short film 1915 Mind Over Motor it short film 1915 Tish s Spy it short film 1915 The Circular Staircase novel The Circular Staircase 1915 Affinities it short film 1915 The Papered Door it short film 1915 What Happened to Father story 1916 Acquitted story 1917 Bab s Diary story 1917 Bab s Burglar story 1917 Bab s Matinee Idol story 1918 The Doctor and the Woman novel K 1918 The Street of Seven Stars novel 1918 Her Country First story The G A C 1919 23 1 2 Hours Leave story 1920 Dangerous Days it novel titles 1920 It s a Great Life it story Empire Builders film 1922 Affinities story 1922 The Glorious Fool stories In the Pavillion and Twenty Two 1923 Mind Over Motor story 1923 Long Live the King book 1924 The Breaking Point novel 1924 The Silent Watcher story The Altar on the Hill 1924 Her Love Story story Her Majesty the Queen 1924 K The Unknown novel K 1925 Seven Days play co written with Avery Hopwood 1926 The Bat play The Bat 1927 City of Shadows story 1927 What Happened to Father story 1927 Aflame in the Sky story 1928 Finders Keepers story Make Them Happy 1930 The Bat Whispers based upon play The Bat 1931 I Take This Woman novel Lost Ecstacy 1932 Miss Pinkerton novel 1934 Elinor Norton novel The State vs Elinor Norton 1935 Mr Cohen Takes a Walk novel 1937 23 Hours Leave story 1941 The Dog in the Orchard story short film 1941 The Nurse s Secret novel Miss Pinkerton 1942 Tish stories 1952 Robert Montgomery Presents TV series novel The Wall 1953 Your Favorite Story TV series story Strange Journey 1953 Broadway Television Theatre TV series The Bat 1956 Star Stage TV series story I Am Her Nurse 1954 56 Ford Television Theatre TV series The Unlocked Door 1954 original story Autumn Fever 1956 1954 56 Climax TV series The After House 1954 The Circular Staircase 1956 1957 Telephone Time TV series Novel Appeal Claudette Colbert portrayed Rinehart in the story of the genesis of the novel The After House 1959 The Bat play The Bat with Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price 1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries TV series The Bat 1978 Der Spinnenmorder de TV film based on The BatSee also editDetective fiction List of female detective characters List of female detective mystery writers List of mystery writersReferences edit a b Keating H R F The Bedside Companion to Crime New York Mysterious Press 1989 p 170 ISBN 0 89296 416 2 a b Atwood Katherine 2014 Women Heroes of World War I Chicago Review Press pp 186 195 ISBN 978 1 61374 686 8 Cloud boat stories by Barton Olive Roberts 1880 1957 Winter Milo 1888 1956 illustrator Internet Archives Retrieved January 23 2021 Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park mrrnaturepark org Archived from the original on November 3 2013 Home Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park mrrnaturepark org Archived from the original on April 15 2013 MacLeod Charlotte 1994 Chapter 20 On Active Duty Had She But Known A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart New York Mysterious Press ISBN 0 89296 444 8 Rinehart Mary World War I Notebook Note Pad with Cover Missing PDF Special Collections Department University of Pittsburgh Retrieved October 22 2013 Doolittle Alice Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers Finding Aid Special Collections University of Pittsburgh Retrieved April 1 2013 Spauling Thomas M 1947 The Literary Society in Peace and War Washington D C George Banta Publishing Company Dubose Martha Hailey December 11 2000 Women of Mystery The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists St Martin s Publishing ISBN 9780312276553 Person to Person Episode 4 9 TV Episode 1956 IMDb Mary Roberts Rinehart Is Dead Author of Mysteries and Plays New York Times September 23 1958 Roseman Mill et al Detectionary New York Overlook Press 1971 ISBN 0 87951 041 2 The Straight Dope In whodunits the butler did it Who did it first straightdope com September 26 2003 Nate Pedersen Why do we think the butler did it The Guardian 9 Dec 2010 Roberts Rinehart Mary 1918 Tenting Tonight A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and Cascade Mountains with Illustrations Roberts Rinehart Mary 1923 The Out Trail Rinehart Mary Roberts 1926 Nomad s Land New York George H Doran Company Further reading editCohn Jan 2005 1980 Improbable Fiction The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN 0 8229 5912 7 Evans Delight The Mother of the Sub Deb Photoplay January 1920 p 74 MRR profile Kudum Karthikeya February 2 2019 Mary Roberts Rinehart The American Agatha Christie Technologies of Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College MacLeod Charlotte 1994 Had She But Known A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart New York Mysterious Press ISBN 0 89296 444 8 Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers 1831 1970 SC 1958 03 Special Collections Department University of Pittsburgh External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mary Roberts Rinehart nbsp Wikisource has original works by or about Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart at IMDb Arlington National Cemetery Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Internet Broadway Database nbsp Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park Glen Osbourne PA with picture of Casella demolished 1969 Electronic editions edit Works by Mary Roberts Rinehart at Project Gutenberg Works by Mary Roberts RineHart at Faded Page Canada Works by or about Mary Roberts Rinehart at Internet Archive Works by Mary Roberts Rinehart at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp Works by Mary Roberts Rinehart at Open Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mary Roberts Rinehart amp oldid 1219274843, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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