Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

My crime books are actually novels and are written as such.

One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader,

and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The mystery story is two stories in one:

the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Born on this day – Mary Roberts Rinehart:

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Writer

August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958

Credits:

Books:

A Poor Wise Man (1920); Affinities (1920); Alibi for Isabel (1944); American Christmas Stories (2021); Black Cat Weekly #64 (2022); Dangerous Days (1919); Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950); Golden Age Detective Stories (2021); Haunted Lady (1942); K (1915); Kill or Cure / Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine (1989); Love Stories (1919); Married People (1937); Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book (1933); Mind Over Motor (1912); Miss Pinkerton / aka The Double Alibi (1932); More Tish (1921); My Story (1931); Nomad's Land (1926); Salvage (1919); Sight Unseen (1946); Sight Unseen / The Confession (1921); Temperamental People (1924); The After House (1914); The Album (1933); The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911); The Amazing Interlude (1918); The Bat (1920); The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013); The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); The Book of Tish (1926); The Breaking Point (1922); The Broken Quarantine (1906); The Case of Jennie Brice (1913); The Cave on Thundercloud (1912); The Circular Staircase (1908); The Collected Mysteries of Mary Roberts Rinehart (2010); The Confession (1946); The Confession / Sight Unseen (1959); The Doctor (1936); The Door (1930); The Frightened Wife (1953); The Great Mistake (1940); The Man in Lower Ten (1906); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Red Lamp / aka The Mystery Lamp (1925); The Romantics (1929); The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933); The Street of Seven Stars (1966); The Swimming Pool (1952); The Truce of God (1920); The Wall (1938); The Wandering Knife (1952); The Web She Weaves (1983); The Window at the White Cat (1910); The Yellow Room (1945); This Strange Adventure (1929); Three of Diamonds / Big Water / Frightened Wife (1953); Tish (1916); Tish Marches On (1937); Tish Plays the Game (1926); Toward the Golden Age / The Stories That Turned Crime to Gold (2016); Two Flights Up (1928); When a Man Marries (1910); Where There's a Will (1912).

Movies and television:

23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919 / 1937); Acquitted (1916); Affinities (1915 / 1922); Aflame in the Sky (1927); At the Foot of the Hill (1914); Bab's Burglar (1917); Bab's Diary (1917); Bab's Matinee Idol (1917); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); City of Shadows (1927); Climax! (1954–1956); Dangerous Days (1920); Der Spinnenmörder (1978); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Elinor Norton (1934); Finders Keepers (1928); Her Country First (1918); Her Love Story (1924); I Take This Woman (1931); It's a Great Life (1920); Jane (1914); K: The Unknown (1924); Long Live the King (1923); Mind Over Motor (1915 / 1923); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Person to Person (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Se ki, se be (1919); Seven Days (1925); Star Stage (1956); The Bat (1926 / 1959); The Bat Whispers (1930); The Breaking Point (1924); The Cave on Thunder Cloud (1915); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Doctor and the Woman (1918); The Dog in the Orchard (1941); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1956); The Glorious Fool (1922); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Papered Door (1915); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Street of Seven Stars (1918); The Unknown (1927); Tish (1942); Tish's Spy (1915); What Happened to Father (1915 / 1927); Your Favorite Story (1953).

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

Of one thing the reader can be certain:

the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The writing career is not a romantic one.

The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world

and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.