Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart (born George Powers Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is an American novelist and screenwriter, author of eleven books. He is best known for his 1971 novel "The Dice Man," the story of a psychiatrist who experiments with the multiple parts of his personality by making life decisions based on the roll of a die. "The Dice Man" was critically and commercially well received. In 1995, the BBC called it "one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," and in 1999 "Loaded" magazine named it "Novel of the Century". In 2013,
K. (novel) K. (novel) K. is a crime novel by the American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) set in post-Victorian era Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. The novel tells the story of Sidney, who takes in a boarder with the initial K. and whose presence leads to mystery. Ms Rinehart is considered the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart invented the phrase "the butler did it", and wrote hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. "K" is a romance set in the industrial Victorian era. When Sidney takes in a border with