: Mary Roberts Rinehart
: Where There's a Will
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According to Wikipedia: 'Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie.[1] She is considered the source of the phrase 'The butler did it', although she did not actually use the phrase herself, and also considered to have invented the 'Had-I-But-Known' school of mystery writing.... Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays, such as The Bat (1920) were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). 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. The Circular Staircase is a novel in which 'a middle-aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer. The house they choose belonged to a bank defaulter who had hidden stolen securities in the walls. The gentle, peace-loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt. This novel is credited with being the first in the 'Had-I-But-Known' school.'[3] The Had-I-But-Known mystery novel is one where the principal character (frequently female) does less than sensible things in connection with a crime which 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, although that exact phrase does not actually appear in the work.'

Where There's A Will By Mary Roberts Rinehart


 

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

 

Other mysteries by Mary Rinehart:

 

  • The Man in Lower Ten
  • The Circular Staircase
  • When a Man Marries
  • The Case of Jennie Brice
  • Street of Seven Stars
  • The After House
  • K
  • Long Live the King!
  • The Amazing Interlude
  • Dangerous Days
  • Love Stories
  • A Poor Wise Man
  • The Bat
  • The Confession
  • Sight Unseen
  • The Breaking Point

 

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I       I HAVE A WARNING

II      MISS PATTY ARRIVES

III     A WILL

IV      AND A WAY

V       WANTED--AN OWNER

VI      THE CONSPIRACY

VII     MR. PIERCE ACQUIRES A WIFE

VIII     AND MR. MOODY INDIGESTION

IX      DOLLY, HOW COULD YOU

X       ANOTHER COMPLICATION

XI      MISS PATTY'S PRINCE

XII     WE GET A DOCTOR

XIII    THE PRINCE--PRINCIPALLY

XIV     PIERCE DISAPPROVES

XV      THE PRINCE, WITH APOLOGIES

XVI     STOP, THIEF!

XVII    A BUNCH OF LETTERS

XVIII   MISS COBB'S BURGLAR

XIX     NO MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN

XX      EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY

XXI     THE MUTINY

XXII    HOME TO ROOST

XXIII   BACK TO NATURE

XIV     LIKE DUCKS TO WATER

XXV     THE FIRST FRUITS

XXVI    OVER THE FENCE IS OUT

XXVII   A CUPBOARD FULL OF RYE

XXVIII  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

XXIX    A BIG NIGHT TO-NIGHT

XXX     LET GOOD DIGESTION

 

CHAPTER I  I HAVE A WARNING


 

When it was all over Mr. Sam came out to the spring-house to say good-by to me before he and Mrs. Sam left.  I hated to see him go, after all we had been through together, and I suppose he saw it in my face, for he came over close and stood l