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The Circular Staircase (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Contributors

By Mary Roberts Rinehart

Introduction by Lisa M. Dresner

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Mar 13, 2012
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411467484

Price

$3.99

Price

$4.99 CAD

Format

ebook (Digital original)

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ebook (Digital original) $3.99 $4.99 CAD

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

Mary Robert Rinehart

unravels a story of a summerhouse rental gone dreadfully wrong in the popular 1908 thriller The Circular Staircase.  With page-turning suspense, the tart-tongued Rachel Innes narrates the ghostly noises, suspicious deaths, troubling disappearances, mysterious origins, midnight prowlers, and stolen fortunes in this best-selling mystery.   

When The Circular Staircase appeared, Rinehart’s humorous, modern take on the gothic was praised as a new style of mystery writing.  Today, it is prominently included in lists of milestones in detective fiction.  Together with Avery Hopwood, Rinehart recast part of the novel’s plot for their smash-hit 1920 Broadway play The Bat, which was immortalized on the silver screen and influenced the genesis of comic-strip hero Batman.


Mary Roberts Rinehart

About the Author

With her own uniquely American style, Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) captivated many American readers during the first half of the twentieth century. Publishing stories became Rinehart’s way out of the hardships that plagued her life. Her light-hearted, yet frightening and romantic mysteries defined her career.

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