# The Dark Stairs

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- Book: [The Dark Stairs](https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-byars/the-dark-stairs) ([The Dark Stairs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-byars/the-dark-stairs.md))
- Authors: [Betsy Byars](https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-byars)
- Publisher: puffin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4240-592-5
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2006-03-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Mystery is in Herculeah Jones’s blood. How could it not be, with a father on the police force and a mother who’s a private eye? So when Herculeah notices a man hanging around the " Dead Oaks"...