The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective (Alan Rodgers Book Wildside Classic) - Softcover

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809593475 ISBN 13: 9780809593477

Verlag: Wildside Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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-bye 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. And then -- the madness seized me. When I look back over the months I spent at Sunnyside, I wonder that I survived at all. As it is, I show the wear and tear of my harrowing experiences. I have turned very gray -- Liddy reminded me of it, only yesterday, by saying that a little bluing in the rinse-water would make my hair silvery, instead of a yellowish white. I hate to be reminded of unpleasant things and I snapped her off. "No," I said sharply, "I'm not going to use bluing at my time of life, or starch, either."

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Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809593475
• ISBN 13: 9780809593477
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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