Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Most Influential Person Across History
American writer
Why Is Mary Roberts Rinehart Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did it" plot device in her novel The Door , although the exact phrase does not appear in her work. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines.
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