THE ATHENAEUMThe Circular StaircaseMary Roberts Rinehart
Mystery
The Circular Staircase
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA sensible spinster rents a country house for the summer, and on the first weekend a man is shot dead at the foot of its spiral staircase. Rinehart’s heroine keeps wondering what she might have prevented, which gave rise to the “had I but known” school of mysteries. There is a hidden room, of course; this shelf would not have it otherwise.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The secret bookcase in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #434. In the public domain in the United States.