
In 1903, the family experienced a crisis that would ultimately change Rinehart's life. The Rineharts immediately started a family, and she was the mother of three boys by the time she was 25. Rinehart, a young surgeon, in April 1896. Rinehart graduated from the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses the following year, and married Stanley M. Genuine tragedy struck the household when Thomas committed suicide in 1895. This childhood sense of danger at her doorstep would later color the mystery novels for which she became famous. Although her childhood was not overtly unhappy, Mary grew up with the specter of poverty and a vengeful God, the latter caused by her parents' religious conviction which focused on the Old Testament. The Circular Staircase (1908) The Man in Lower Ten (1909) When a Man Marries (1909) The Window at the White Cat (1910) The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) The Case of Jennie Brice (1913) The After House (1914) Kings, Queens and Pawns (1915) Tish (1916) Bab: A Sub-Deb (1917) The Amazing Interlude (1918) Dangerous Days (1919) A Poor Wise Man (1920) Sight Unseen and the Confession (1921) The Red Lamp (1925) Tish Plays the Game (1926) Lost Ecstasy (1927) This Strange Adventure (1929) The Door (1930) My Story (autobiography, 1931) Miss Pinkerton (1932) The Album (1933) The Doctor (1936) Tish Marches On (1937) The Wall (1938) The Great Mistake (1940) Haunted Lady (1942) The Yellow Room (1945) Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950) The Swimming Pool (1952) The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories (1953).īorn Mary Roberts on August 12, 1876, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mary Roberts Rinehart was the older of two daughters of Cornelia Grilleland Roberts and Thomas Beveridge Roberts. Was the first American correspondent to report from the front lines during World War I (1915) was the first reporter to interview England's Queen Mary of Teck (1915). Rinehart (a surgeon), in April 1896 (died 1932) children: Stanley, Jr. Born Mary Roberts on August 12, 1876, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania died on September 22, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York daughter of Thomas Beveridge Roberts (a sewing machine salesman) and Cornelia (Grilleland) Roberts graduated from Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses, 1896 married Stanley M.
