[DOC] [TLE] Mary Roberts Rinehart - Wikipedia [PAR] Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876  September 22, 1958) was an 
American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first 
mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922. 
Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel 
The Door (1930), .... The Had-I-But-Known mystery novel is one where the 
principal character... [DOC] [TLE] The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] I had a hard time getting into this book and remembering all the characters. .... 
Published in 1930, The Door plods along from one murder to the next right under 
the ... Shelves: vintage-mystery, mystery, american-mystery, bought-2016 ... My 
first Mary Roberts Rinehart novel and likely not my last, though she is not as 
skilled... [DOC] [TLE] Mary Roberts Rinehart - by Michael E. Grost [PAR] Mary Roberts Rinehart's return to the mystery field, The Door ... Anyone who 
wants to pan Rinehart's work can point to these long stuffy novels. ... can say for 
any of the other upper class characters in The Door. ... get into a wealthy 
household, but is turned away at the door by the ... A Mystery Cliche. [DOC] [TLE] The Butler Did It - TV Tropes [PAR] The butler is the avatar of the most unlikely suspect that turns out to be guilty 
because the ... The expression "The butler did it" was probably coined by novelist 
Mary Roberts Rinehart, although it's likely ... types of clue that Doyle introduced 
into the mystery genre on the grounds that they were now overused). .... Comic 
Books. [DOC] [TLE] The Butler Did It [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board [PAR] Person 1: Have you read Mary Rinehart's latest mystery? ... That said, I think that 
it took a writer like Rinehart to turn the plot into a cliche. ... butler did it" is 
commonly attributed to novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart" is that she is ... by 1928, 
two years before The Door, the notion of using a servant as the murderer... [DOC] [TLE] THE BUTLER DID IT...NOT LIKELY! - Desert Cities Mystery [PAR] Aug 2, 2014 ... I've read lots and lots of mystery novelshundreds of them and I have ... 
Snooping into life's mysteries with fun, fiction, & ... The clich belies a 
preoccupation with the murder of rich people ... Apparently, The Door by Mary 
Roberts Rinehart published in 1930, ..... Really gave me a flavor for the 
characters! [DOC] [TLE] The Passing Tramp: November 2012 [PAR] Nov 2, 2012 ... By the 1930s she had moved to New York City and was a member of ... This is a 
shame, for A Girl Died Laughing is a good detective novel, ... behind the door of 
another apartment, the laughter of a "girl" (this is ... He's a nicely done character. 
.... The Bat was based on the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery... [DOC] [TLE] 1920s | Welcome to My Magick Theatre [PAR] Faust is so overcome by helplessness, he throws all his books into a fire. .... It 
was based on a 1920 Broadway play, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart ... The 
play in turn was based on Mrs. Rinehart's 1908 mystery novel The Circular 
Staircase. ... The clichd phrase The butler did it comes from her 1930 novel 
The Door. [DOC] [TLE] : The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories [PAR] Meanwhile, on the novel scene, until the end of the 1930's the best-selling ... 
Instead of turning on whodunit, the focus shifted elsewhere. ... do the characters 
in Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Lipstick. 
..... The door leading from the front room into the passage was locked, with the 
key on... [DOC] [TLE] Beneath the Stains of Time: October 2012 [PAR] Oct 1, 2012 ... "A shabby museum of every clich of plot, style and action." .... The murder

Question: Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1930 mystery novel "The Door" turned blaming this character into a cliche
Answer: the butler