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Not Enough of Rinehart Shows Up in Biography

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940522
Author:Edward S. Gilbreth

Had She But Known By Catherine MacLeod. Mysterious Press. $21.95.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, as this century's first American to achieve enormous celebrity and wealth from the writing of super-selling mystery novels, deserved more than the ignoble silence that greeted her centennial year in 1976. At that time, Americans were, of course, caught up in the U. S. Bicentennial.

More than a dozen years later, however, when mystery fans paid appropriate homage to Agatha Christie on her centenary (1989) and were beginning to lay plans for the same landmark tribute for Dorothy L. Sayers (1993), ...

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