The Circular Study

De: Anna Katharine Green

Narrado por: Cate Barratt

The Circular Study
By Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green is considered a pioneer in American detective fiction, known for her legally accurate plots and the invention of the "girl detective" trope. Classic detective novel The Circular Study features New York Police Detective Ebenezer Gryce, who is drawn out of a melancholic pre-retirement by a bizarre murder. Set in a New York brownstone, a man is found stabbed in a secured, unique, circular study, involving a mute servant, hidden metal barriers, and a mysterious woman.

BOOK I. A STRANGE CRIME

1. Red Light
2. Mysteries
3. The Mute Servitor
4. A New Experience for Mr. Gryce
5. Five Small Spangles
6. Suggestions From an Old Friend
7. Amos's Son
8. In the Round of the Staircase
9. High and Low
10. Bride Roses
11. Misery
12. Thomas Explains
13. Despair
14. Memoranda

BOOK II. REMEMBER EVELYN

1. The Secret of the Cadwaladers
2. The Oath
3. Eva
4. Felix
5. Why the Iron Slide Remained Stationary
6. Answered
7. Last Words

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