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Arthur Somers Roche
Milton Sills playing the piano for Arthur Somers Roche, Ora Carew, and director Phil Rosen
Born	(1883-04-27)April 27, 1883 Somerville, Massachusetts
Died	February 17, 1935(1935-02-17) (aged 51) Palm Beach, Florida
Occupation	Writer, playwright
Nationality	American
Period	20th century
Genre	Fiction

Arthur Somers Roche (April 27, 1883 – February 17, 1935) was an American author of novels, short stories, and two plays.

Biography

Arthur Somers Roche was born April 27, 1883 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Boston College. Roche initially practiced law, then went into newspaper work. In 1910, he began to write fiction. His first story sold for $6, the second, for $25, after which he began to command higher prices for his output.

Roche was married twice. His first wife was Ethel Kirby Nowell of New York; she died in 1910. He then married Ethel Pettit of Stuttgart, Arkansas. Roche died February 17, 1935 in Palm Beach, Florida due to a heart ailment. He was 51. He was survived by his second wife and two sons. Roche is interred in Castine Cemetery in Castine, Maine, as are both of his wives.

Works

• Loot (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1916)
• Plunder (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1917)
• Sport Of Kings (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1918)
• The Scrap Of Paper [play, with co-author Owen Davis; originally a short story published in the Saturday Evening Post], (1917)
• Ransom (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918; A. L. Burt Co., 1920)
• Eyes Of The Blind (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1919; A. L. Burt, 1919)
• Uneasy Street (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920)
• Day of Faith (Boston: Little Brown, 1921)
• Find the Woman (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1921)
• More Honorable Man (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922)
• John Ainsley, Master Thief (1924)
• The Pleasure Buyers (New York: The Macmillan company, 1925)
• Devil-May-Care (New York: The Century Company, 1926)
• Come to My House (New York: The Century Company, 1927)
• What I Know About You (New York: J.H. Sears & Co., Inc., 1927)
• Wise Wife (New York: The Century Company, 1928)
• Marriage for Two (New York: J. H. Sears & Co., Inc., 1929)
• The Woman Hunters (New York: The Century Company, 1929)
• Age of Youth (New York: Sears, 1930)
• Among Those Present (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1930)
• Four Blocks Apart (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1931)
• Rhapsody in Gold (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1931)
• Gracious Lady (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1932; A. L. Burt, 1932)
• Wrong Wife (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1932)
• Great Abduction (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1933)
• Case Against Mrs. Ames (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934)
• Conspiracy (New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1934)
• Shadow of Doubt (New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1935)
• Penthouse (New York: Dodd: Mead and Co., 1935)
• In the Money (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1936)
• Star of Midnight (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1936)
• Hard to Get (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937)
• Lady of Resource (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1938)

Source:

Partial filmography

• Kissed (1922)
• The Day of Faith (1923)
• The Girl from Chicago (1927)
• Come to My House (1927)
• Man, Woman and Wife (1929)
• Penthouse (1933)
• Society Lawyer (1939)

Further reading

• Wlaschin, Ken (2009). Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland. p. 261. ISBN 9780786443505.
• Kunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard (1973). Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Hw Wilson Company. p. 1188. ISBN 9780824200497.

External links

• Works by Arthur Somers Roche at Faded Page (Canada)
• Arthur Somers Roche at IMDb