Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was an American author and the source of the phrase "The butler did it."

Bibliography

Novels and plays

• 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 : a story of love, mystery and a private yacht (1914)
• K (1915)
• Bab, a Sub-Deb (1917)
• Long live the King! (1917)
• The Amazing Interlude (1918)
• Dangerous Days (1919)
• Salvage (1919)
• A Poor Wise Man (1920)
• The Breaking Point (1922)
• The Red Lamp (1925)
• The Mystery Lamp (1925)
• Two Flights Up (1928)
• The Door (1930)
• The Bat (with Avery Hopwood, 1932)
• 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)

Series

• Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
• The Man in Lower Ten (1906)
• The Circular Staircase (1907)
• 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)

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)

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