The Circular Staircase
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Circular Staircase…
“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. . .”
And so begins The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic mystery tale featuring a bank failure, a murder, mysterious intruders, a kidnapping, arson and a characteristically complex plot which twists and turns like the circular staircase that figures so prominently, and ominously, in setting the scene for a series of mysterious events.
This quality large print volume is not a machine scan or reproduction. Prepared by human editors this edition includes the complete and unabridged original classic version of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Circular Staircase in a freshly edited and newly formatted edition printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover. By slightly increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make this complete, unabridged large print edition available at reasonable cost.
Also included in this edition are a detailed biographical sketch discussing the life and work of author Mary Roberts Rinehart and footnotes, added sparingly, to assist the reader with particularly unusual words or usages.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a popular and successful American writer best known for her mysteries. Sometimes referred to as “the American Agatha Christie,” Rinehart’s first mystery novel actually appeared over a decade before Christie’s. She is considered the originator of the “Had-I-But-Known” style of mystery, where a character fails to realize the importance of an early clue, as well as the source of the phrase “The butler did it”.in a story where, ironically, the butler did do it, but the phrase was never uttered by any character.
Rinehart served in Britain as a war correspondent during WWI and, in addition to writing several best-selling books she was a regular and popular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. She used this platform to disclose her personal battle with breast cancer, a subject rarely discussed in public at the time, and urged women to begin regular examinations, effectively launching the modern screening movement in the U.S.
Product details
Publisher: Apex Publications, Independently published (February 22, 2024)
Language: English
Paperback: 298 pages
ISBN: 979-8880373604
Item Weight: 1.48 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 0.68 x 9.69 inches
List Price: $16.97
