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Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in Allegheny City (now the North Side of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania in 1876. Early in her life her father held a relatively prosperous position as a sewing machine agent while her mother earned extra money for the household as a dressmaker. As a young woman she was an avid reader, borrowing Dumas, Balzac, Zola, and others from the Mayor's office library. However, her passion for literature was, and remained to be, always for the stories themselves as opposed to their more critical implications. She entered high school opting for the English program in which she received mediocre grades reflecting the financial problems that plagued her household as her father had lost his sewing machine franchise and embarked on a series of unprofitable inventions of his brother's and his design. Her gift for writing was clear even then with the publication of several short stories in Pittsburgh newspapers while in high school.

At the generosity of her uncle, Mary entered nursing school and began her training at the local hospital. There, she made the acquaintance o

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How Mary Roberts Rinehart, Queen of the Mystery Novel, Was Very Nearly Murdered

Late in the morning of June 21, 1947, Mary Roberts Rinehart sat in the library, speaking to her butler. She had hired him earlier that summer and hoped he would suit, unlike the other butlers who had come and gone. Eaglesgate was a lot of ground to cover—literally, what with the hilltop manse, the guest houses dotting the carriage roads, and the long way down to Eden Street, one of the main streets of Bar Harbor, Maine. But an able butler could do it.

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Rinehart had purchased the sumptuous, seven-acre estate, then known as Farview, ten years before. She’d rented in Bar Harbor for two successive years, falling ever more in love with the island resort town by Frenchman Bay. When Rinehart learned the estate was for sale at an absurdly low price—this was the height of the Great Depression—she pounced. Rinehart was not born rich, but the success of her novels, plays, and stories, beginning with The Circular Staircase (1908), catapulted her several rungs up the

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The Fascinating Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart: The 'American Agatha Christie'

Pioneering U.S. mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart survived heart attacks, breast cancer, financial ruin, and a murderous attack by a homicidal chef. She left behind a body of work that helped shape crime writing and inspired the creator of one of our most enduring superheroes.

For a best-selling crime author to be shot dead in the library by one of her servants might seem like the stuff of cliché, the start of some arch spoof of 1930s detective fiction, perhaps. Yet in 1947 it almost became reality for Mary Roberts Rinehart. For the author who was credited with inventing the mystery novel in which “the butler did it”, this would have been bitterly ironic indeed.

Fortunately for Rinehart, when Blas Reyes, her Filipino cook, burst into the library of her palatial summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine, pointed his pistol, and pulled the trigger, the gun jammed. Rinehart fled. Reyes was not done. Seizing a carving knife from the kitchen, he pursued his employer. He was about to stab her in the back w