Mary Roberts Rinehart — American Novelist born on August 12, 1876, died on September 22, 1958

Mary Roberts Rinehart 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... (wikipedia)

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.