by Mary Roberts Rinehart · Laertes editorial, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475841571
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«L'escala circular» is the mystery novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, published by Laertes editorial in paperback (209 pages, in Catalan).
Miss Cornèlia, a middle-aged spinster, rents a summer house with her nephews. The Elizabethan mansion hides a mystery: servants don't last and incidents of a gothic, ghostly nature occur. When a corpse appears at the foot of the circular staircase, Cornèlia's shrewdness and humor guide the investigation.
Originally published in 1908 as «The Circular Staircase»; it is the second installment of the Miss Cornelia Van Gorder trilogy. In this edition, it forms part of the L'Arcà collection (no. 46).
For readers of classic mystery novels and gothic fiction; the protagonist anticipates Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines.
