When a Man Marries

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Overview

Mary Roberts Rinehart is considered to be the American equivalent of Agatha Christie. She is the author of the phrase ôthe butler did itö. Rinehart has written hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. When A Man Marries his troubles begin! The old nursery rhyme holds true for Jimmy Wilson. On the anniversary of his divorce, his friends gather to cheer him up. Only everything goes deadly wrong. ôIt began with Jimmy Wilson and a conspiracy, was helped on by a foot-square piece of yellow paper and a Japanese butler, and it enmeshed and mixed up generally ten respectable members of society and a policeman. Incidentally, it involved a pearl collar and a box of soap, which sounds incongruous, doesn't it?ö

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438537726
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	03/09/2010
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

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 published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908).
She also created a costumed super-criminal called "the Bat", cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman".