Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
Citations
Rinehart, Mary Roberts. K. Houghton Mifflin, 1915, p. 315.
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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 (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work.