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Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Murder Mystery
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Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Murder Mystery Paperback - 2008

by Gertrude Stein; Introduction by John Herbert Gill

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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. 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."

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  • Title Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Murder Mystery
  • Author Gertrude Stein; Introduction by John Herbert Gill
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 101
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications
  • Publication date 2008-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780486462363 / 0486462366
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.27 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.69 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008005292
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

"America is my country," declared expatriate Gertrude Stein, "but Paris is my hometown." In addition to writing novels, stories, plays, and poems, Stein conducted a Parisian salon that was frequented by an international array of avant-garde artists and authors.

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