The Circular Staircase
The Circular Staircase
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Softcover ISBN: 9781596880894
Hardcover ISBN: 9781596880894
Rachel Innes leases a country estate to spend the summer with her niece and nephew. Strange sounds and sightings cumulate with murder of the owner's son at the foot of a mysterious circular staircase.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, is considered one of the founding masters of the modern mystery story for using narrative point of view as a key element of how the mystery is perceived by the reader and eventually solved. She is credited with creating the phrase, “the butler did it” in her novel, The Door.
Birthplace: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Books: The Bat, Tish, The Confession, The Circular Staircase, The Case of Jenny Brice, The Man in Lower Ten