All of Rinehart's detective novels were to follow the pattern set by The Circular Staircase. The initial crime is only the first in a series of violent events which strike the characters throughout the novel. Other elements introduced in this novel include the infamous "Had-I-But-Known" narrative technique, where the first person narrator laments that, based on hindsight, she would have acted very differently; the blending of romantic subplots with the main mystery story line; the use of humor; and the shifting of attention from the detective to the.....
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