Luke Rhinehart which uses dice in various books to lead to spiritual life changes. Luke Rhinehart and The Dice Man have influenced or been referenced in several songs: Other music connections: The brewers of Rolling Rock pale lager launched a series of adverts based around the Dice Man theme, and even a 'Dice Life' website, now defunct. In the 1980s, the UK comic 2000 AD published several Gamebook magazines under the name "Dice Man". 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
Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920. Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel "The Door" (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of "The Circular Staircase" (1908). Mary Roberts Rinehart was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of