The Circular Staircase (First Edition)
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Adapted twice for the screen: once in 1915, as a silent film, and once in 1956, for the television series "Climax!" The novel was also the basis for the successful 1920 Broadway play "The Bat."
Very Good lacking the dust jacket. Contemporary inscription on the front endpaper, with light glue darkening on the front endpaper, and moderately rubbed board edges.
Haycraft Queen Cornerstone.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157596
- Title
- The Circular Staircase (First Edition)
- Author
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Mystery and Crime | Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone | Author's First Book | Books into Film
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books into Film; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Mystery and Crime;
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