In 1915 at age 38, Pittsburgh Mary Robert Rinehart left her three teenage sons and physician husband to travel to Europe on assignment for the Saturday Evening Post. She talked her way into covering conditions at the front based upon her credentials as a nurse. She toured front lines and field hospitals in Belgium, France and England, was the first reporter to interview Belgium's King Albert and England's Queen Mary, and scored numerous other important interviews. Originally hoping to counter German propaganda and the Allied censoring of information about conditions at the front after nearly 6 months of battle, Rinehart's reports reinforce American neutrality while also attempting to bolster her country's support of the Allied effort. Her collected WWI Post articles were supplemented by journal entries about her visit and published in 1915 in this book format which has been digitized without modern editorial comment.
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Mysteries of known American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart include The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Door (1930). People often called this prolific author often the American version of Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie. She, considered the source, used not the phrase "The butler did it," and people also consider that she invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues, and special articles. People adapted many of her books and plays for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). Amid many of her best-selling books, critics most appreciated her murder mysteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary\_Ro...
