Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
two stories mystery-novels
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.
lying team moving
Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
names letters welcome
I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter ...
trouble
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
home thinking next-week
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.
missing said possession
It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
book two stories
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.
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
morning sleep tired
Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.
punctuation-marks vision pavement
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
children men thinking
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...
girl men boys
Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
morning cutting cities
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
peace affirmation passive
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.