It has an unusual and most engaging narrator, the charmingly independent and opinionated Miss Rachel Innes. So I was looking forward to The Circular Staircase with great anticipation, having read enough of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s work over the years to know that she can indeed spin an engaging tale, usually including a nicely independent and outspoken female lead or two, in keeping with the author’s suffragette and proto-feminist leanings.Īnd, by and large, The Circular Staircase mostly pleased me, in a low-key way, though it took me absolutely forever to work through. It is sometimes claimed that she was the best-paid American author of her time her book sales were in the millions. 362 pages.Ī decade and a half before Agatha Christie penned her first murder mystery in England, Mary Roberts Rinehart had a stunning success with this book, which established her as bestselling mystery and dramatic fiction writer in North America. The Circular Staircaseby Mary Roberts Rinehart ~ 1908.
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