Nurse Sarah Keate, the amateur snoop who made readers of The Patient in Room 18 and While the Patient Slept shudder, is back in stand-up-to-the-devil form. Now she supervises the third floor of a metropolitan hospital. From the landings of a walnut stairway, unlighted for the sake of economy, she can see everything going on. She generally uses the stairs instead of the lurching cagelike elevator, but one sweltering summer night--! Let her tell the strange story of a body where it shouldn't be, and no body where it ...
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Nurse Sarah Keate, the amateur snoop who made readers of The Patient in Room 18 and While the Patient Slept shudder, is back in stand-up-to-the-devil form. Now she supervises the third floor of a metropolitan hospital. From the landings of a walnut stairway, unlighted for the sake of economy, she can see everything going on. She generally uses the stairs instead of the lurching cagelike elevator, but one sweltering summer night--! Let her tell the strange story of a body where it shouldn't be, and no body where it should have been. From This Dark Stairway , originally published in 1931, belongs to the golden age of detective fiction. Some suspiciously stylish people, a formula for a superior anesthetic, an antique Chinese snuff-bottle that Philo Vance would have coveted--these elements come together classically and chillingly.
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Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First printing. Black cloth with orange-backed lettering. Heavy shelfwear, with worn-through corners and frayed spine tail. The spine is slanted.
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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 327. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Neat name on front endpaper, with very slight creasing at spine and spine ends, otherwise very good+. Decent copy.
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Very Good. 8 x 5", cloth, 312pp, covers rubbed, extremities lightly bumped and worn, pp toned in a rubbed, edge-worn/bumped, price-clipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.
