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22 de may. de 2013 · Reader Chris wrote in wondering how “the butler did it” became a mystery fiction cliche and who the first guilty butler was.
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...
New York, under the title The Butler Did It. [1] The plot concerns a tontine formed by a group of wealthy men weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, and a butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of the scheme, years later decides to try to make money out of his knowledge.
- 18 January 1957 (UK), 28 January 1957 (US)
- Comic novel
The Butler Did It is a phrase regarded as a cliche in detective fiction, and may refer to: "The butler did it", a phrase associated with the 1930 novel The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart "The Butler Did It", a 1973 single by Skogie "The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)", an episode of Police Squad!
The Butler Did It is a 300,000 word interactive novel by Daniel Elliot (and a finalist in the Choice of Games writing contest) where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
9 de mar. de 2021 · "The butler did it" is a common trope indicating a hackneyed solution to a mystery. I have read several classic mysteries from the 1920s and earlier (Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie, Sayers, etc.) but do not recall a single instance of the butler's actually being the criminal mastermind, let alone enough such stories to justify the phrase ...
