Mary Roberts Rinehart
1876
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1958
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: romance novel
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing
occupation: journalist, novelist, poet, writer, screenwriter, nurse, humorist, essayist, travel writer, crime fiction writer
award received: Edgar Awards
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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