Complete Mystery Detective Humor Romance of Mary Roberts Rinehart Complete Mystery Detective Humor Romance of Mary Roberts Rinehart

Complete Mystery Detective Humor Romance of Mary Roberts Rinehart

Circular Staircase, Oh Well You Know How Women Are!, Breaking Point, Truce of God, Man in Lower Ten, Tish, Window at the White Cat, Case of Jennie Brice, The Bat, K, Love Stories, The After House, Where There's A Will, Street of Seven Stars, Dangerous Days, The Confession, Affinities, Sight Unseen, A Poor Wise Man, When a Man Marries, Kings Queens And Pawns, Bab A Sub-Deb, Tenting To-night, Through Glacier Park, Amazing Interlude, More Tish, Long Live the King!, Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls

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Publisher Description

Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it", although she did not actually use the phrase. She also created a costumed supercriminal called "the Bat", who was cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman."

Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959 remake). In 1933 RCA Victor released The Bat as one of the earliest talking book recordings.

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. 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."

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. 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", which has become a cliché, came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did do it..

Contents

Cornelia Van Gorder Series

The Circular Staircase

The Bat

The Breaking Point

The Man in Lower Ten

'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'

'Isn't That Just Like a Man!'

Affinities and Other Stories

Dangerous Days

The Case of Jennie Brice

The Confession

The After House

K

The Amazing Interlude

Bab: A Sub-Deb

The Street of Seven Stars

The Window at the White Cat

When a Man Marries

Where There's A Will

The Truce of God

Letitia Carberry Series

Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

More Tish

A Poor Wise Man

Love Stories

Tenting To-night, A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains

Kings, Queens And Pawns An American Woman at the Front

Sight Unseen

Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls

Long Live the King!

Through Glacier Park

GENRE
Romance
RELEASED
2015
July 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
7,245
Pages
PUBLISHER
ANEB Publishing
SELLER
kaichien ku
SIZE
11.6
MB

More Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Love Stories Love Stories
1919
The Circular Staircase The Circular Staircase
1958
The Man in Lower Ten The Man in Lower Ten
1958
The Case of Jennie Brice The Case of Jennie Brice
1913
The Swimming Pool The Swimming Pool
2013
Where There's a Will Where There's a Will
1958