Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Mary Roberts Rinehart
(1876–1958)

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American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie; best remembered for her mystery books, and her humorous books of the character Tish. She also created a costumed super-criminal called "the Bat", cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman." Pen names: Mary Rinehart

801721Q460366Mary Roberts RinehartMary RobertsRinehartMary Roberts RinehartAmerican writer, often called the American Agatha Christie; best remembered for her mystery books, and her humorous books of the character Tish. She also created a costumed super-criminal called "the Bat", cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman." Pen names: Mary Rinehart

• The Man in Lower Ten (1906)
• The Mystery of 1122 (1909)
• The Window at the White Cat (1910) (revision of The Mystery of 1122), illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
• When A Man Marries, or Seven Days (1910) novel based on the play, Seven Days Project Gutenberg
• Where There's a Will (1912) Project Gutenberg
• The Case of Jennie Brice (1913) Project Gutenberg
• The Street of Seven Stars (1914) Project Gutenberg
• The After House (1914) Project Gutenberg
• K (1915) Project Gutenberg
• Bab (1916) Project Gutenberg
• Long Live the King! (1917) Project Gutenberg
• The Amazing Interlude (1918) Project Gutenberg
• Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave (1918)
• Dangerous Days (1919) Project Gutenberg
• Oh Well You Know How Women Are - Isn't That Just Like a Man (1920) Irvin S. Cobb & Rinehart (external scan)
• A Poor Wise Man (1920) Project Gutenberg
• The Truce of God (1920) Project Gutenberg
• The Breaking Point (1922)
• The Red Lamp (1925) a.k.a. The Mystery Lamp
• Lost Ecstasy (1927)
• This Strange Adventure (1928)
• Two Flights Up (1928)

• The Double Life (1906)
• Seven Days (Broadway comedy, with Avery Hopwood, 1909)
• Cheer Up (1912)
• Tumble In (1919), musical version of Seven Days
• The Bat (1920), with Avery Hopwood, based on The Circular Staircase
• Spanish Love (1920), with Avery Hopwood
• The Breaking Point (1923)

• The Circular Staircase (1908)
• The Bat (play, with Avery Hopwood, 1920) based on "The Circular Staircase"
• The Bat (novel, 1926), with Avery Hopwood based on the play "The Bat." Apparently, ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét

• The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) (external scan)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry — Three Pirates of Penzance (1910) — That Awful Night
• Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions (1916) (transcription project)
  • Mind over Motor (1912) — Like a Wolf on the Fold — The Simple Lifers — Tish's Spy — My Country Tish of Thee—
• More Tish (1921)
  • The Cave on Thunder Cloud (1912) — Tish Does Her Bit — Salvage (1919)
• Tish Plays the Game (1926)
  • Tish Plays the Game — The Baby Blimp — Hijack and the Game — The Treasure Hunt — The Gray Goose
• The Book of Tish (1926) omnibus
  • Tish — More Tish — Tish Plays the Game — The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry — Three Pirates of Penzance
• Tish Marches On (1937)

• The Buckled Bag (1914, in The Saturday Evening Post)
• Locked Doors (1914, in The Saturday Evening Post)
• Miss Pinkerton (1932)
  • The Buckled Bag — Locked Doors — Miss Pinkerton — Haunted Lady
• Haunted Lady (1942)
• The Secret (1950)

• Love Stories (1919)
  • Twenty-Two — Jane — In the Pavilion — God's Fool — The Miracle — "Are We Downhearted? No!" — The Game
• Mary Roberts Rinehart's Romance Book (1918) novels
  • K. — The Amazing Interlude — The Street of Seven Stars
• Sight Unseen and The Confession Project Gutenberg (1921?) novellas
  • Sight Unseen · (1916) — The Confession · (1917)
• Affinities and Other Stories (1920)
  • Affinities — The Family Friend — Clara's Little Escapade — The Borrowed House — Sauce for the Gander
• Temperamental People (1924)
• The Romantics (1929)

• "His Other Self" (1904 Dec, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "The Prize Pumpkin Pie" (1905 Feb, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "An Anonymous Guest" (1905 May, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "The Old Maid's Boy" (1905 Aug, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "Through the Gap" (1905 Oct, Munsey's) (ss)
• "At the Foot of the Hill" (1906 Munsey's) ss
• "The Broken Quarantine" (1906 Munsey's) ss
• "A Triangular Elopement" (1907 Oct, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "A Conflict of Authorities," (1907 Nov, Munsey's Magazine)
• The Valley of Oblivion (1908 Los Angeles Herald) ss
• "For Auld Lang Syne" (1908 Feb, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "His Father's Son" (1908 Feb, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "The Room Beyond" (1908 Mar, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "I Go a Playing" (1909 Munsey's) ss
• "A Lion Rampant" (1909 Munsey's) ss
• "Those That Wait" (1910 Jan, Scribner's) (ss)
• "Grandfather Bixby, Nurse" (1910 July, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine) (ss)
• "Your Explanation, Gentlemen," (1910 July, Munsey's Magazine)
• "The Dancer at the Cabarin" (1912, Collier's) (ss)
• "The Miracle," (1912 June, Munsey's Magazine)
• "'Long Live the King!'" (1912 Dec, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
• "Grandfather Bixby, Nurse" (1915 Oct, Smith's Magazine) (ss)
• "'Are We Downhearted? No!'" (1916 Jan 8, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• His Letters (1918 Sept, McClure's Magazine)
• "The Family Goes A-Gypsying," (1918 June 12, Munsey's Magazine)
• "My Public," (1920 Dec, The Bookman)
• "Spanish Love" (1921, Everybody's Magazine) with Avery Hopwood (play)
• "The Unreality of Modern Realism," (1922 Dec, The Bookman)
• "The Papered Door" (1922 Oct 1, The Sunday Star) (ss)
• "Adventures into the Unknown" (1924 May, Cosmopolitan) (article? series?)
• "Hijack and the Game" (1925 Jan 31, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss) [Tish]
• "Writing as a Career," (1927 Feb, The Bookman)

Longer works

• "Three Pirates of Penzance" (1910, The Saturday Evening Post) (novelette) [Tish]
• The Case of Jennie Brice Everybody's Magazine, 1912 Oct, etc (4-part serial) Illustrator, Frederic Dorr Steele
• The After House, 1913 June, etc, Munsey's Magazine (5-part serial)
• "The Buckled Bag," 1914 Jan 10, etc, The Saturday Evening Post (2-part serial) [Hilda Adams #1]
• "Locked Doors" (1914 Aug 22, etc, The Saturday Evening Post) (2-part serial) [Hilda Adams #2]
• "Sight Unseen" (1916 June, etc, Everybody's Magazine) (4-part serial)
• "The Confession" (1917 May, etc, Good Housekeeping) (4-part serial)
• "The Girl Who Had No God" (1917, The Meridian Times) (serial)
• Salvage The Saturday Evening Post, 1919 Jun 7, etc (2-part serial) [Tish]
• The Breaking Point McClure's Magazine, 1921 June-Jul, etc (serial)
• "Tish Plays the Game," 1922 Mar 4, The Saturday Evening Post (novelette)

Verse and Poetry

• "The Detective Story" (1904, Munsey's Magazine)
• "The Striking Storks" (1906 Munsey's Magazine)
• "Christmas Eve in Town," (1907 Dec, Munsey's Magazine)

• Through Glacier Park in 1915, or Seeing America First with Howard Eaton, (illustrated, 1915) Project Gutenberg
• Tenting Tonight: A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and Cascade Mountains (1918) Project Gutenberg
• The Out Trail (1923)
• Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls Project Gutenberg

• Kings, Queens, and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915) Project Gutenberg
• My Story (1931, revised 1948)

Films: Information on films for which she wrote the scripts, or which were based on her stories, can be found at [imdb.com]

• "Mary Roberts Rinehart: An Appreciation" (1913 April, The Book News Monthly) (article) by Unknown