The Circular Staircase is clearly a descendant of the fifty years of detective stories which preceded it. It is probably no coincidence that BobbsMerrill, the publishers of the novel, had also published Anna Katherine Greene's The Leavenworth Case (1878), exactly thirty years earlier. Greene also created a female detective, Violet Strange, now long forgotten. Although Rinehart writes firmly in the detective tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she shifts the focus from the eccentric detective with almost supernatural powers of detection to an ordinary person.....
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