{"product_id":"the-staircase-ag-barnett-9798252322216","title":"The Staircase","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOxford, 1925. A professor dead at the foot of his staircase. The police call it an accident. Nell Blackwood calls it something else entirely.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNineteen years old, furiously intelligent, and expected to smile at dinner parties and marry well - Nell has other plans. And when a family she has known since childhood begins to fracture under the weight of a grief that doesn't quite ring true, she can't stay quiet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wife whose hands never tremble. The daughter who doesn't sleep. The son who wasn't even in the house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe takes what she's seen to the one person who might understand it: Roderick Fane. Once celebrated, now forgotten - a brilliant detective who hasn't left his decaying North Oxford villa in ten years, crippled by the war and by something harder to name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is bitter, sharp, and entirely uninterested in company. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is about to change that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is his eyes and ears beyond the front door. He is the mind she is learning to match. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Staircase is the first Fane \u0026amp; Blackwood Mystery - classic detective fiction with dark edges, set in 1920s Oxford. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Anthony Horowitz.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ag Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798252322216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Ag Barnett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743182860543,"sku":"9798252322216","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-staircase-ag-barnett-9798252322216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}