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The Man on the Endless Stair

A fantastical, page-turning locked room mystery
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When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protege, vouching for him in the rarefied literary scene in the 1950s. But lately, Malcolm has not been himself. Consumed by his... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Whendecorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall is found brutally murdered in his study,and his invaluable unfinished novel missing, it falls to his protege - atroubled but talented young author named Euan - toventure deep into Malcolm's labyrinthine mansion to find the manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands.

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When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protege, vouching for him in the rarefied literary scene in the 1950s. But lately, Malcolm has not been himself. Consumed by his work, he cuts an increasingly isolated figure and has become convinced that something terrible will befall him. He summons his loved ones to his secluded island in the Hebrides and to everyone's surprise entrusts Euan with the task of completing his masterpiece.

Malcolm's suspicions soon prove well-founded; he is discovered brutally murdered in his study, and his invaluable unfinished novel has vanished. Cut off from the mainland, with the killer on the loose and the island's inhabitants circling, Euan feels both his mentor's legacy and his only chance at greatness slipping away. He must venture deep into Malcolm's labyrinthine mansion to find the manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands.

But what he doesn't yet know is that the closer he comes to solving the mystery, the tighter he will bind himself to a fate sealed in time...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781846976896

Publisher: Birlinn General

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 422g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Chris Barkley was appointed Writer in Residence by the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He won the Oxford University Kellogg Writing Competition in 2021, as well as the Bedford International Writing Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize and has had prose published in TSS, National Flash Fiction, Darling Axe, and the Writers of the Future 35th anthology. He lives in Edinburgh.

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