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She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" although Mary Roberts Rinehart did not actually use the phrase. Through Glacier Park-Seeing America First with Howard Eaton. In 1933 RCA Victor released The Bat as one of the earliest talking book recordings.

She is considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12 1876-September 22 1958) was an American writer often called the American Agatha Christie although her first mystery novel was publiMary Roberts Rinehartd 14 years before Christie's. ".