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From This Dark Stairway
''From This Dark Stairway'' published by celebrated crime author Mignon G. Eberhart in 1931 serves as the fourth installment in her popular series featuring the amateur sleuthing duo of nurse Sarah Keate and police detective Lance O'Leary.
The story takes place during a sweltering summer night in a metropolitan hospital, specifically tracking the events on the third floor overseen by Nurse Sarah Keate.
To save money, the hospital leaves its massive walnut staircase unlit. The central "impossible crime" occurs when a doctor boards a lurching, cage-like elevator with a patient on a gurney, heading toward the operating theater. The elevator stalls briefly. When it finally arrives at its destination and the doors open, the physician is found dead inside-but the patient and the gurney have completely vanished without anyone seeing them leave.
To save money, the hospital leaves its massive walnut staircase unlit. The central "impossible crime" occurs when a doctor boards a lurching, cage-like elevator with a patient on a gurney, heading toward the operating theater. The elevator stalls briefly. When it finally arrives at its destination and the doors open, the physician is found dead inside-but the patient and the gurney have completely vanished without anyone seeing them leave.
