22 hours ago, Raithe said:

Herbert Jenkins "The Strange Case of Mr Challoner" from 1921's Malcolm Sage, Detective predated S.S. Van Dine's 20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories essay by 7 years and had the butler as the killer.  It is the earliest still known use of the idea; the 1930 book (Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Door) is much better known, so gets erroneously mentioned as this first.  The continuing fame of Rinehart, possibly because she was a major seller and continued writing detective fiction into the 1950s is comparatively different from Jenkins, who is probably better known as the guy whose company published the original P. G. Wodehouse books than by his fiction stories (even if three of the Malcolm Sage stories were collected in a 1929 collection of best of detective fiction and Sage was favorably compared at the time to Messrs Holmes and Poirot).

EDIT: To be clear, Van Dine's essay basically says using a servant (butler, maid, footman, valet, chauffer) isn't in the spirit of detective fiction (as disgruntled employees killing the person or whatever being too obvious), so doesn't call out Butler's, specifically, either.

 

34 minutes ago, rjshae said:

That looks obviously photoshopped.

1 hour ago, Keyrock said:

That looks obviously photoshopped.

Somebody went to the trouble of adding a NZ location to google maps. Heh.

Hits even better when you find out the author was you.

 

 

9 hours ago, Raithe said:

even the same city. i saw a video where the reporter was asking questions in an all white neighborhood of New York about the need for id in elections and most of them said its wrong to ask for id because they believed that black people don't have it, they don't know how to get one and don't have access to the internet or know how to use it... like black americans lived in some other, 3rd world country and not in the same city