The Circular Staircase - Couverture rigide

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1434436160 ISBN 13 : 9781434436160

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Circular Staircase blends classic gothic elements with early detective fiction as an unlikely heroine uncovers dark secrets buried within a stately home. Combining sharp wit with mounting suspense, the novel helped shape the American mystery genre, introducing readers to atmospheric crime-solving long before it became mainstream. At once chilling and charming, it's a tale of resilience, revelation, and the perilous path to the truth.

Mary Roberts Rinehart - known as "The American Agatha Christie" - was born in 1876 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She started writing as a way to earn income after a heavy stock market loss in 1903. She wrote The Circular Staircase, her first novel, in 1908. The book sold over a million copies and propelled Rinehart to national fame.

A regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, Rinehart served as the first woman war correspondent to the Belgian front during WWI. In 1929, she helped her sons found the publishing house Farrar & Rinehart, serving as its director. In hundreds of short stories, Rinehart developed enduring series characters like Letitia (Tish) Carberry and Nurse-Detective Hilda Adams (Miss Pinkerton). She is credited with inventing the phrase "The Butler Did It" from her novel The Door (1930), and many of her books and plays were adapted into movies, including I Take This Woman starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard (1931).

Recognizing her long contribution to the mystery field, The Mystery Writers of America awarded Mary Roberts Rinehart a Special Edgar Award in 1954. She died on September 22, 1958, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434436160
• ISBN 13: 9781434436160
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
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• Personne responsable: non disponible