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Mary Roberts Rinehart’s "The Circular Staircase" follows a middle‑aged spinster who, after years of quiet domestic routine, leaves her urban home for a summer house in the Adirondack mountains. There she discovers a murder and must navigate a local crime investigation guided by the town’s detective agency, all while confronting her own changing role in a community steeped in crime and mystery.
First publish date: 1908
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Mary Roberts Rinehart
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