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    Mary Roberts Rinehart: Short Mystery Classics
    Mary Roberts Rinehart: Short Mystery Classics
    Mary Roberts Rinehart: Short Mystery Classics
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart: Short Mystery Classics

    By Mary Roberts Rinehart and S. H. Marpel

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    Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the "American Agatha Christie", although her first mystery novel was published 12 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.
    Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-but-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908).
    At 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.
    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.  
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    AMY HAD RUN ALL THE WAY BACK from the party but when she reached the corner she knew she was too late. The big red house was brightly lighted, a car she recognized as the doctor’s was in the drive, and a police siren was shrieking and coming closer.
    She was gasping for breath as she stood there, her knees shaking under her, and her face, had anyone seen it, showing complete despair. There was no one near, however. It was the dinner hour for the unfashionable neighborhood, which ate between six and seven. The bitter cold had driven even the dogwalkers inside, and the police car had not yet appeared, although the siren sounded closer.
    She tried to think, standing there in her mink coat and with the wind blowing the feathers of her party hat in every direction. She looked precisely what she was, a stoutish handsome woman in her thirties, with a square jaw and a rather bitter mouth, who had obviously been to a smart reception and was on her way home. Only she was not going home; not to face the police, or the doctor, or—
    Her mind stopped there, as if it could not go on. But she dared not stay where she was. She turned and gasped her way around the corner, walking stiffly, not noting where she was going. After a few blocks she found herself in front of an apartment house, and stood there staring at it...
    Anthology containing:
    - The Scandal
    - If Only It Were Yesterday
    - Murder and the South Wind
    - Locked Doors
    - The Burned Chair
    - The Confession
    - The Frightened Wife
    - Sight Unseen 
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMidwest Journal Press
    Release dateJul 26, 2020
    ISBN9788835869290
    Mary Roberts Rinehart: Short Mystery Classics
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

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