The Circular Staircase
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Published: December 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780881847727
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery and detective stories; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Classics; Mystery & Detective - General; Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
First sentence: 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.