"The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab."

My story (ed. 1931)

Mary Roberts Rinehart was born #OTD in 1876. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73

Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/183

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