Blood on the Dining Room Floor by Gertrude Stein

Blood on the Dining Room Floor by Gertrude Stein

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. Stymied--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 Floor is the brilliant result.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 nary a detective to lead the way, Stein lays out a series of crimes and clues, enticing readers to come up with their own verdict on the baffling events of one unnatural summer.Dover (2008) unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Banyan Press, New York, in 1948, and reprinted by Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, California, in 1982. A new Introduction by John Herbert Gill, and a revised version of his original Bibliographical Note, appear in the Dover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780486462363
ISBN 10	0486462366
Title	Blood on the Dining Room Floor
Author	Gertrude Stein
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2008-06-26
Number of pages	128
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