Had She But Known

✍ Scribed by Charlotte MacLeod

• Book ID: 100166822
• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1504042565

✦ Synopsis

Before Agatha Christie, there was America's Mistress of Mystery. This is the story of her life and creative legacy, from the butler who did it to Batman.
In the decades since her death in 1958, master storyteller Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been compared to Agatha Christie. But while Rinehart was once a household name, today she is largely forgotten. The woman who first proclaimed "the butler did it" was writing for publication years before Christie's work saw the light of day. She also practiced nursing, became a war correspondent, and wrote a novel--The Bat --that inspired Bob Kane's creation of Batman.
Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, before it was absorbed into Pittsburgh, and raised in a close-knit Presbyterian family, Mary Roberts was at once a girl of her time--dutiful, God-fearing, loyal--and a quietly rebellious spirit. For every hour she spent cooking, cleaning, or sewing at her mother's behest while her "frail"...