Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Murder Mystery
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Although remembered mostly for her audacious bestseller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein was a unique literary artist of the twentieth century who left a voluminous body of work, including novels, essays, poetry, and prose. Symied—just once—by a case of writer's block, Stein forayed into the world of mystery fiction to rediscover her path to creativity. Combining elements of free association and interior monologue that earned her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, Stein drew from a summer's worth of mysterious events at her French country home for inspiration. Blood on the Dining-Room Flooris the brilliant result.
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A possible murder disrupts the peaceful setting when, in a nearby village, Madame Pernollet is found on the cement courtyard of her husband's hotel. Did she fall from a window above...or was she pushed? Was there someone who wanted the preoccupied woman out of the way? In a departure from the typical whodunit, with a nary a detective to lead the way, Stein lays out a series of crimes and clues, enticing reader to come up with their own verdict on the baffling events of one "unnatural summer."
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