Blood on the Dining-Room Floor

✍ Scribed by Gertrude Stein

• Book ID: 111185561
• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504061506
• ASIN: B085G4WMQ3

✦ Synopsis

A quirky literary mystery from the iconic modernist writer known for her Jazz-Age Paris salon and bestselling book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas**.**

Gertrude Stein was a distinctly unique talent who penned many novels, essays, and poems. And on one occasion, during a bout of writer's block, she decided to play with the popular genre of mystery fiction.

The book that resulted, Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, is not your typical whodunit, just as Stein was not your typical author. With elements of her trademark avant-garde style, the story revolves around the mysterious passing of Madame Pernollet, who is found dead in the courtyard of a hotel owned by her husband.

Incorporating some autobiographical details from events at her own French country house, Stein invites the reader to play detective—and offers a glimpse into one of the early twentieth century's most interesting and challenging literary minds.