Rinehart, Mary Roberts,  1876-1958 <br/><br/>
The Circular Staircase 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circular_Staircase  Release date is 1996-02-01 
<br/><br/> "The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a mystery novel published in 1908. When Rachel Innes rents a country house for the summer with her niece and nephew, she encounters mysterious intruders, unexplained noises, and a murder at the bottom of the titular staircase. As bodies accumulate and secrets multiply, Rachel must untangle a web of hidden identities, missing money, and family betrayals. This pioneering work established the "had I but known" mystery formula and became Rinehart's first bestseller. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Country homes -- Fiction Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Mystery fiction Middle-aged women -- Fiction 
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