The Circular Staircase

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit - mysterious events, ghostly apparitions, things that go bump in the night and murder. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Editorial Reviews

from her book Had She But Known Charlotte MacLeod

It was with [The Circular Staircase] that Mary Roberts Rinehart really found her voice: the indefinable, unmistakable, individual cadence that can be copied but never quite satisfactorily matched.”

Hewitt Howland

My dear Mrs. Rinehart, I have read The Circular Staircase not only with pleasure, but with thrills and shivers.”

JULY 2022 - AudioFile

Because they have entered the public domain, many more vintage mysteries have been appearing in the audiobook format. There are numerous productions of this Mary Roberts Rinehart classic about a wealthy, urbane spinster who rents a remote country estate. Rinehart has been labeled the Agatha Christie of America, but her female detective is unlike Miss Marple. Patrician Rachel Innes, as portrayed by narrator Aimee Lilly, has both an understandable hauteur and a generosity of spirit that makes the listener forgive her condescension. Lilly conveys the mood of the story’s time period and nails the characters’ various socioeconomic classes. Additionally, she delivers an exciting puzzle featuring secret rooms, cryptic notes, ghostly images, odd noises, and, of course, dead bodies. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169390858
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014
Sales rank:	732,737

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