The Circular Study

A-Table B- Small Stand
C-Door to Bedroom
D-Evelyn's Picture
E-Loophole on Stair
Landing F-Entrance

to Study

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a
cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds
that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a
respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally
stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only
apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and
a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the
crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce
must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have
kept it alive. Anna Katharine Green was a pioneering writer of detective
fiction in the United States. Her first such novel, The Leavenworth Case,
was published in 1878. She is credited with changing the genre by making
her stories legally accurate. She invented the "girl detective.” But her works
remained popular because of their lively, twisting plots and the strong
characters she developed. (Summary by Christine Dufour)

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Read by Christine Dufour. Total running time: 6:15:08

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author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Annise. This design is in the public domain.

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