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Airs Above the Ground

  • 1965 first published
  • 256 pages
  • ★ 5.0 (7 ratings)
  • 30 editions

Mary Stewart's Airs Above the Ground (1965) is a gothic fiction and romantic suspense novel. The story is set in Vienna, Austria. Key subjects include missing persons, lipizzaner horse, horses and circus.

Open Library readers give it an average of 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, and 45 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 30 editions across 3 languages.

At about 256 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About Airs Above the Ground

Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire and knew it was more than strange. It was downright sinister. Vanessa is propelled to Vienna by the shocking discovery. In her charge is young Timothy Lacy, who also has urgent problems to solve. But her hunt for answers only leads to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of white stallions of Vienna. But what promises to be no more than a delicate personal mission turns out to involve the security forces of three countries, two dead men, a circus and its colourful personnel. And what waits for Vanessa in the shadows is more terrifying than anything she has ever encountered.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Suspense
  • Suspense thrillers
  • Missing persons
  • Lipizzaner horse
  • Horses
  • Spanische Reitschule, Vienna, Austria
  • Circus
  • Suspense romance
  • Thrillers
  • Vienna, Austria
  • Spanish Riding School, Vienna, Austria
  • Gothic
  • Lipizzan
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Personnes disparues

Quick answers

Who wrote Airs Above the Ground?

Airs Above the Ground was written by Mary Stewart and first published in 1965.

What genre is Airs Above the Ground?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Romantic Suspense and Circus & Carnival.

How long is Airs Above the Ground?

The median edition has 256 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Airs Above the Ground?

Readers who like it often enjoy Fat Tuesday, Jamaica Inn and Rebecca.

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