The Stain on the Stairs

Title: The Stain on the Stairs 

Author: not known 

Publisher: not known 

Source book: Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #1)

Vicar’s wife Griselda Clement is reading The Stain on the Stairs, a detective story. She searches the house but can’t find it anywhere. So when finally she asks her husband if he’s seen the book, she finds him neglecting his sermon for her book. Apparently a chance sentence caught his eye and…

It’s most unfortunate that we have no author for The Stain on the Stairs, and no vestige of plot either. What a pity.

However, it does sound as though there might be blood involved.

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