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    Isn't That Just Like a Man!
    Isn't That Just Like a Man!
    Isn't That Just Like a Man!
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    Isn't That Just Like a Man!

    By Mary Roberts Rinehart

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    Humorous essay.According to Wikipedia: "Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie.[1] She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it", although she did not actually use the phrase herself, and also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.... Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays, such as The Bat (1920) were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Rinehart, in The Circular Staircase (1908), is credited with inventing the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. The Circular Staircase is a novel in which "a middle-aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer. The house they choose belonged to a bank defaulter who had hidden stolen securities in the walls. The gentle, peace-loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt. This novel is credited with being the first in the "Had-I-But-Known" school."[3] The Had-I-But-Known mystery novel is one where the principal character (frequently female) does less than sensible things in connection with a crime which have the effect of prolonging the action of the novel. Ogden Nash parodied the school in his poem Don't Guess Let Me Tell You: "Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor." The phrase "The butler did it", which has become a cliché, came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did do it, although that exact phrase does not actually appear in the work."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455447848
    Isn't That Just Like a Man!
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) was one of the United States’s most popular early mystery authors. Born in Pittsburgh to a clerk at a sewing machine agency, Rinehart trained as a nurse and married a doctor after her graduation from nursing school. She wrote fiction in her spare time until a stock market crash sent her and her young husband into debt, forcing her to lean on her writing to pay the bills. Her first two novels, The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Man in Lower Ten (1909), established her as a bright young talent, and it wasn’t long before she was one of the nation’s most popular mystery novelists. Among her dozens of novels are The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911), which began a six-book series, and The Bat (originally published in 1920 as a play), which was among the inspirations for Bob Kane’s Batman. Credited with inventing the phrase “The butler did it,” Rinehart is often called an American Agatha Christie, even though she began writing much earlier than Christie, and was much more popular during her heyday. 

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      Isn't That Just Like a Man! - Mary Roberts Rinehart

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      ISN’T THAT JUST LIKE A MAN! BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974 as B&R Samizdat Express, now offering over 14,000  books

      feedback welcome: [email protected]

      Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart available from Seltzer Books:

      Mysteries:

      The Man in Lower Ten (1906)

      The Circular Staircase (1908)

      When A Man Marries (1910)

      The Window at the White Cat (1910)

      Where There's a Will (1912)

      The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)

      Street of Seven Stars (1914)

      The After House (1914)

      Locked Doors (1914)

      K (1915)

      Long Live the King! (1917)

      The Amazing Interlude (1918)

      Dangerous Days (1919)

      Love Stories (1919)

      Truce of God (1920)

      Affinities and Other Stories (1920)

      A Poor Wise Man (1920)

      The Bat, with Avery Hopwood (1920)

      The Confession (1921)

      Sight Unseen (1921)

      The Breaking Point (1922)

      Non-Fiction:

      Kings, Queens and Pawns: an American Woman at the Front (1915)

      Through Glacier Park (1915)

      Tenting To-Night : a chronicle of sport and adventure in Glacier park and the Cascade mountains (1918)

      Isn't That Just Like a Man! (1920)

      Young-Adult Novels:

      Bab, a Sub-Deb (1916)

      Tish (1916)

      More Tish (1921)

      COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

      I UNDERSTAND that Mr. Irvin Cobb is going to write a sister article to this, and naturally he will be as funny as only he can be. It is always allowable, too, to be humorous about women. They don’t mind, because they are accustomed to it.

      But I simply dare not risk my popularity by being funny about men. Why, bless their hearts (Irvin will probably say of his subject, bless their little hearts. Odd, isn’t it, how men always have big hearts and women little ones? But we are good packers. We put a lot in ’em) I could be terribly funny, if only women were going to read this. They’d understand. They know all about men. They’d go up-stairs and put

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