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22 de may. de 2013 · In Rinehart’s 1930 novel The Door, the butler is the murderer, and while the novel is sometimes cited as the first appearance of the phrase “the butler did it,” it doesn’t appear in that book...
The Butler Did It by P. G. Wodehouse (1957) In the Jeeves and Wooster novel Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Released in the U.S. as Bertie Wooster Sees it Through), when Bertie meets the author of the murder mystery he's reading, he asks him who's the killer, and he answers that it's the butler.
- Origin of “The Butler Did It!”
- Using The Trope of The Guilty Butler
- Life Imitates Art
- The Usual Suspects
The concept of the phrase is generally attributed to Mary Roberts Rinehart who wrote The Door, a 1930 novel where the butler is revealed to be the villain. The exact phrase never appeared in her works, though. It’s believed that this concept came to be because servants in the Victorian era were typically underpaid and overworked, so the idea of ser...
When modern writers do use this trope, it’s usually subverted, inverted, or parodied in some way. For example, in the 2019 film Knives Out, the butler role is swapped with a personal nurse. The nurse does kill her employer, but only by accident, giving him a fatal dose of morphine. With minutes to live, he commits suicide to protect her from punish...
Rinehart herself almost became a victim to her own employee. In the late 1940s, she hired a new butler for her summer home. This upset her longtime chef, who had wanted the position for years. While Rinehart was reading in her library, the chef came in without a jacket, a violation of Rinehart’s dress code for staff. When asked where it was, the ch...
The “the butler did it” trope was once a legitimate technique in writing thriller and mystery stories. Now it’s become a tired cliche that everyone’s heard off. It’s still a fun tropeto play with during your writing exercises, or you can modify it to fit your narrative. You can make it a red herring of sorts to camouflage your true intentions. Just...
Something Fishy is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 18 January 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 28 January 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title The Butler Did It. [1]
- 18 January 1957 (UK), 28 January 1957 (US)
- Comic novel
19 de ene. de 2023 · According to numerous sources, “the butler did it” trope was coined by Mary Roberts Rinehart in The Door, a 1930s mystery by the prolific author in which, well, the butler does it. In the novel, an elderly family nurse was murdered, and the revealed suspect isn’t confirmed until the very last page.
9 de mar. de 2022 · "The butler did it" may be one of the most famous tropes in mystery novels, but there are a surprisingly small number of well-known books that feature a butler as the main perpetrator of a crime. One of the best-known mystery writers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, may have been the first to do it.
Quick Reference. The phrase “the butler did it” is a cliché widely used in jest by people who are not fans of detective fiction. In fact, there are surprisingly few detective novels ... From: “butler Did It, The.” in The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing ». Subjects: Literature.
