Imagen del autor

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)

Autor de La escalera de caracol

123+ Obras 7,217 Miembros 180 Reseñas 16 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1876. While attending Allegheny High School, she received $1 each for three short stories from a Pittsburgh newspaper. After receiving inspiration from a town doctor who happened to be a woman, she developed a mostrar más curiosity for medicine. She went on to study nursing at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital. After graduating in 1896, she began her writing career. The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the novel as The Bat (1920). Her other mystery novels include The Man in Lower Ten (1909), The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), The Door (1930), The Yellow Room (1945), and The Swimming Pool (1952). Stories about Tish, a self-reliant spinster, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into The Best of Tish (1955). She wrote more than 50 books, eight plays, hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Three of her plays were running on Broadway at one time. During World War I, she was the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front. She died September 22, 1958 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Series

Obras de Mary Roberts Rinehart

La escalera de caracol (1908) 958 copias
The Man in Lower Ten (1906) 382 copias
The Yellow Room (1945) 309 copias
The Bat (1926) 301 copias
The Case of Jennie Brice (1912) 261 copias
Miss Pinkerton (1932) 239 copias
The Wall (1938) 230 copias
The Door (1930) 222 copias
The After House (1913) 212 copias
The Red Lamp (1925) 211 copias
The Swimming Pool (1952) 199 copias
The Album (1933) 198 copias
The Great Mistake (1940) 185 copias
Haunted Lady (1942) 185 copias
The Breaking Point (1921) 154 copias
Tres días de crimen (1950) 151 copias
The Amazing Interlude (1918) 122 copias
Dangerous Days (1919) 106 copias
The Street of Seven Stars (1914) 103 copias
The State vs. Elinor Norton (1934) 97 copias
K. (1915) 93 copias
Lost Ecstasy (1927) 81 copias
Bab: A Sub-Deb (1916) 81 copias
When a Man Marries (1909) 80 copias
The Confession (1917) 58 copias
Where There's a Will (1912) 58 copias
Una luz en la ventana (1948) 56 copias
A Poor Wise Man (1920) 56 copias
Sight Unseen (1916) 54 copias
Long Live the King! (1912) 49 copias
More Tish (1921) 40 copias
The Doctor (1936) 39 copias
This Strange Adventure (1929) 35 copias
Through Glacier Park (1916) 34 copias
Love Stories (1919) 33 copias
Tish Plays the Game (1926) 29 copias
Married People (1937) 29 copias
Tenting To-night (1917) 29 copias
Two Flights Up (1928) 25 copias
The Truce of God (1920) — Autor — 23 copias
Tish Marches On (1937) 20 copias
My Story (1931) 20 copias
Locked Doors (1914) 18 copias
The Out Trail (1923) 11 copias
The Book of Tish (1926) 9 copias
The Buckled Bag (1914) 8 copias
Temperamental People (1924) 8 copias
Affinities (1920) 6 copias
Nomad's Land (1926) 6 copias
The Romantics (1929) 5 copias
The Altar of Freedom (1916) 4 copias
Mind Over Motor (1941) 2 copias
Murder and the South Wind (1945) 2 copias
The Burned Chair (1953) 2 copias
The Scandal (1950) 2 copias
Writing Is Work (1939) 2 copias
Things I Can't Explain (1950) 1 copia
Amazing Interlude (1918) 1 copia
The Lipstick (1942) 1 copia
The Broken Quarantine (1906) 1 copia
Tish and More Tish (2013) 1 copia
The Cave on Thundercloud (1912) 1 copia
Salvage (1919) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Contribuidor — 289 copias
A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volumes 1-2 (1957) — Contribuidor — 263 copias
A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volume 1 (1957) — Contribuidor — 207 copias
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 176 copias
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Contribuidor — 137 copias
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Contribuidor — 91 copias
Murder for Christmas, Vol. 2 (1982) — Contribuidor — 86 copias
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Contribuidor — 79 copias
American Christmas Stories (2021) — Contribuidor — 59 copias
The Bat [1959 film] (1959) — Original novel — 49 copias
Masterpieces of Mystery: The Fifties (1976) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Kill or Cure (1985) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
Mehr Morde (1961) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Mord als schöne Kunst betrachtet. (1999) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
The Bat Whispers [1930 film] (1930) — Original play — 4 copias
Suspense, June 1960 [Vol. 3, No. 6] (1960) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Delitti in camice bianco (2001) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Great Stories of Detection (1960) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Die schönsten Tiergeschichten — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Mystery Book (1939) 1 copia
Einige Morde : Mordgeschichten (1969) — Autor — 1 copia
Aces: A Collection of Short Stories (1924) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Detectiveverhalen 2 (1964) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Second Mystery Book (1940) 1 copia
15 Great Stories of Today (1946) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Avon Annual 1945: 18 Great Modern Stories (1945) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Le signorine omicidi (1998) — Contribuidor — 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Roberts, Mary Ella (born)
Otros nombres
Roberts, Mary R.
Fecha de nacimiento
1876-08-12
Fecha de fallecimiento
1958-09-22
Lugar de sepultura
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Lugares de residencia
Washington, D.C., USA
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educación
Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses (1896)
Ocupaciones
playwright
mystery novelist
war correspondent
travel writer
short story writer
Relaciones
Rinehart, Stanley Marshall, Jr. (son)
Rinehart, Alan Gillespie (son)
Rinehart, Frederick Roberts (son)
Premios y honores
Honorary Doctorate (Literature | George Washington University | 1923)
Mystery Writers of America Special Award (1954)
Biografía breve
Mary Roberts Rinehart was a best-selling mystery writer of the "Golden Age" who was as well-known (if not better known) than Agatha Christie, to whom she's often compared. Critics praised the careful plotting of her novels. She's credited with originating the "had-I-but-known" literary school of mystery writing. Typically, the narrator digresses over the things she might have done to prevent the novel’s numerous murders, had she only been able to see the dire consequences of her inaction or failure to report information to the police. Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says Rinehart "has been and continues to be the most important American woman mystery writer." She was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of 16, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. She married Stanley Marshall Rinehart, a physician with whom she had four children. During the stock market crash of 1903, Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing to earn income. In 1907, she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. Her regular contributions to the Saturday Evening Post were immensely popular and helped the magazine mold American middle-class taste and manners. She often pursued adventure, including taking a job as the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front during World War I. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. She also coined the famous phrase, "The butler did it." (retrieved from Amazon 1/30/2011).

Miembros

Reseñas

Starts out as a 'locked room' murder mystery that takes place on a boat at sea. A fair amount of violence, considering the time it was written, and more of a suspense novel than a mystery. The ending is a let down, hence the low rating. it was almost three stars except for the final solution.
½
 
Denunciada
TheGalaxyGirl | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 3, 2024 |
The Yellow Room, originally published in 1945, is one of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s best books, in my opinion. It is an old-fashioned, very entertaining example of the more traditional mystery genre. There is a pretty young girl, a murder, intrigue involving the young woman's family, and, of course, a dashing war hero in love with the heroine, and only too willing to use every means at his disposal to help her. Rinehart creates a fun and exciting atmosphere for mystery lovers to enjoy, as well as a pretty good brain teaser.

Young Carol Spencer is a likable heroine trying to recover from the loss of her fiancee in the South Pacific. She longs to keep busy and wants to make herself useful in the war effort. She has been forced to care for her mother, however, because her selfish sister Elinor is too busy with her society functions to help. When Carol leaves New York and travels to Maine, to open up their home there, she discovers many unsettling mysteries. Lucy, the maid, is missing, and it is soon discovered that she is in the hospital with an injured leg. Someone unknown had chased her in the night until she fell down the stairs. It could be that certain someone who has been hiding in the yellow room, even though no one was living in the Spencer's Maine home. Worse, there is a very dead young woman in the closet. When it is discovered that woman arrived asking about Carol, our heroine becomes a suspect in the eyes of the local police.

Dane is a war veteran whose past is a bit of a mystery. His meddling in the case is unappreciated by the local police. Carol hasn't a clue who to turn to, who to trust. When her brother arrives on the scene, rather than shedding light on the matter, the mystery becomes even murkier. Carol's snotty sister's car was seen the night of the murder, even though she was supposedly in New York. Was Carol's brother involved somehow? Who has been stealing her mother's fine china from the house? What was the dead girl's relationship to her brother and sister?

Dane uses every man and instinct at his disposal to root out the real killer, and get to the bottom of things. Shots in the night and the mysterious actions of someone unknown, yet moving easily among her Maine neighbors, can only spell great danger for Carol.

This mystery is very old-fashioned, and likewise so is the charming romance. The product of a more romantic era, The Yellow Room is very much a mystery where you can sense changes the war brought about in young men. The mores of a bygone era are at the forefront in this enjoyable and atmospheric mystery from one of the greats in the genre. For those who like their mysteries old-fashioned, and a bit on the romantic side, The Yellow Room is a lot of fun.
… (más)
 
Denunciada
Matt_Ransom | 9 reseñas más. | Oct 6, 2023 |
conflict betw. Authority & conscence
 
Denunciada
SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |
essay on process
 
Denunciada
SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |

Listas

Premios

También Puede Gustarte

Autores relacionados

Estadísticas

Obras
123
También por
37
Miembros
7,217
Popularidad
#3,394
Valoración
½ 3.5
Reseñas
180
ISBNs
1,315
Idiomas
13
Favorito
16

Tablas y Gráficos