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The Circular Staircase
de Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908. First edition. 8vo, 362pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped with red lettering and black staircase and window illustration on upper board and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Signed card from Rinehart laid in. Nearly fine, spine slightly cocked and with rubbing to spine ends and corners. Bookplate to front pastedown else clean internally. Original, untouched jacket is very good with chipping to upper corner of rear panel and along upper edge of front panel including head of spine. Some rubbing at folds. First impression with September statement of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and first book from Rinehart.
Originally published in 1907 as a serial in All-Story, the work quickly established Mary Roberts Rinehart's popularity as a mystery writer when it became a bestseller shortly after publication in book form the following year. The thriller was later adapted for the stage as The Bat, becoming a major Broadway hit. Hailed the American Agatha Christie, Rinehart would go on to write many other important works that would further the mystery novel, including The Man in Lower Ten, The Red Lamp, The Door, and others.
An influential work which established in the genre a certain type of foreshadowing seldom found in plots prior to its publication. Copies in the original jacket are quite scarce.
Originally published in 1907 as a serial in All-Story, the work quickly established Mary Roberts Rinehart's popularity as a mystery writer when it became a bestseller shortly after publication in book form the following year. The thriller was later adapted for the stage as The Bat, becoming a major Broadway hit. Hailed the American Agatha Christie, Rinehart would go on to write many other important works that would further the mystery novel, including The Man in Lower Ten, The Red Lamp, The Door, and others.
An influential work which established in the genre a certain type of foreshadowing seldom found in plots prior to its publication. Copies in the original jacket are quite scarce.
Sinopsis
This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-by to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof.
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- Título
- The Circular Staircase
- Autor
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Formato/Encuadernación
- 8vo, 362pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped with red lettering and black staircase and window illustration on upper board and sp
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- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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- Indianapolis
- Fecha de publicación
- 1908
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