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    The Circular Staircase
    The Circular Staircase
    The Circular Staircase
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Circular Staircase

    Written by Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9781094250182
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

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    • 3/5
      The story was fine, but I found the change of narrators every chapter or two distracting.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      An excellent novel all but ruined by the assorted readers.Made it difficult at times to keep the characters straight.

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    • 1/5
      I made it to the fifth chapter then couldn’t stand listening any longer. The frequent change in narrators was off putting, as was the long pauses and disruptive book and chapter information between each chapter. I will find another way to enjoy the book.
    • 2/5
      This book would be very good if there was only one narrator. It makes it so hard to keep characters straight.
    • 4/5
      A fun mystery that earns its four stars. But the enjoyment was ruined by too many narrators, some of which were so poor I skipped entire chapters. Librevox recordings are usually better than this.