Dover Mystery Classics: The Circular Staircase (Paperback)

from stephanie_M

I was not all that impressed with this novel. It is my first from this author, and I had heard great things about her writing. But for some reason, I found that there were way too many things going on in this novel to let me sit back and enjoy it as I wished I could have. It seemed to be frantica...

from Kasthu

The plot of The Circular Staircase is, like the staircase of the title, rather roundabout. There are a lot of elements in this novel-murder, embezzlement, robbery, and arson, just t name a few of the crimes perpetrated by the characters in this book. Rachel Innes is a rather prickly middle-aged s...

from Meredy

Six-word review: Adequate but unexceptional country house mystery. Extended review: Here's an author whose work I'd never read before and was very unlikely ever to read. Her name was associated in my mind with frothy, shallow popular fiction of the sort that would be no challenge to semiliterate ...

from rainpebble

The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart; (4*) It has been many years since my last Rinehart read and in reading The Circular Staircase, I was reminded anew how well respected and beloved Mary Roberts Rinehart was & perhaps still is in this style of the genre. Quite a remarkable read, this...

from richardderus

Rating: 3.75* of five The Book Report: Miss Rachel Innes, spinster of circa-1908 Pittsburgh, inheritrix of two children now relatively safely launched into adulthood, and possessor of a large automobile, determines that her town residence needs significant tarting up and, to avoid the attendant c...