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The Circular Staircase

This volume contains the three books of the Miss Cornelia Van Gorder series, written by the "American Agatha Christie", as she was often called, Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of other beloved character such as TISH and Hilda Adams.

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.

The volume contains the following books:
The Man In Lower Ten
The Circular Staircase
The Bat

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