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The Circular Staircase
Paperback
Series: Dover Mystery Classics
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
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ISBN13: 9780486297132
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Feb 20 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, has barely settled in at the country house she has rented for the summer when a series of bizarre and violent events threaten to perturb her normally unflappable nature. A strange figure appears briefly in the twilight outside a window. At night, a rattling, metallic sound reverberates through dark halls, and -- most disconcerting of all -- the body of a strange man is found lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of a circular staircase.
Author of more than 60 chilling mysteries, Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) is credited with inventing the Had-I-But-Known school of detective fiction, which typically involved an attractive heroine caught up in a seemingly endless succession of dangerous predicaments. The Circular Staircase -- originally published in 1908 -- is considered the first of the genre. A clever blend of intrigue, villainy, and heart-pounding suspense, leavened with traces of wry humor, this immensely popular novel will delight today's crime fiction buffs as much as it galvanized readers almost 90 years ago.
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