War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" although Mary Roberts Rinehart did not actually use the phrase. Through Glacier Park-Seeing America First with Howard Eaton. In 1933 RCA Victor released The Bat as one of the earliest talking book recordings.

She is considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. 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 publiMary Roberts Rinehartd 14 years before Christie's. ".