Walker’s Reviews > Circular Staircase > Status Update

Close to finishing this. There are many twists and turns. The story is "told" by a spinster aunt. At times it tends to go in circles.

First sentence Chapter 1:
This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous.

My hard back copy was printed in 1977 and has 249 pages, but this was the closest I could find to the one I have. Originally published in 1908.