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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.
20 de ago. de 2021 · “The butler did it!” is one of the most recognizable cliches in mystery literature. This trope takes one of the least likely suspects, who is usually dismissed throughout the narrative, and presents them as the antagonist in the big reveal.
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]
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.
