Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Modernist Murder Mystery one which confronts all that

one which confronts all that is most recalcitrant and unsettling in the struggle to create a better world

from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe

replacing it with a grounding reminder of what's true: we are all connected

drug use and indigenous curing ceremonies

Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: A Modernist Murder Mystery one which confronts all thatWritten in 1933, immediately following the publication of the wildly successful Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Blood on the Dining Room Floor is one of Steins most avant garde pieces of writing, taking the murder mystery genre and working it masterfully into a Modernist mould.