This premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged original classic version of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Circular Staircase in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 7.44"x9.69" page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with page headers a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. By increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make this complete, unabridged large ...
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This premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged original classic version of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Circular Staircase in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 7.44"x9.69" page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with page headers a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. By increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make this complete, unabridged large print edition, an exact counterpart of our standard edition, available at reasonable cost. Also included in this edition are an original, detailed biography discussing the life and work of author Mary Roberts Rinehart and annotations, added sparingly, to assist the modern reader with particularly unusual words or usages. Also available from Summit Classic Press in a matching large print edition: The Man in Lower Ten (ISBN-13: 978-1493797677; ISBN-10: 1493797670), another classic Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery. 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. Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 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, as well as the source of the phrase "The butler did it."
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Add this copy of The Circular Staircase the Original Classic Mystery to cart. $17.97, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of The Circular Staircase the Original Classic Mystery to cart. $17.97, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of The Circular Staircase the Original Classic Mystery to cart. $17.97, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.