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Title: The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 0-486-29713-6 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A haunting mystery, a smooth, fast read.
Comment: This is Mary Roberts Rinehart at her best. The author tells a haunting tale which is on a par with The Yellow Room. Rinehart is a master at setting the stage and draws the reader in with her unique stlye of mystery writting. She expertly developes the plot and her character descriptions are flawless. A real page turner and a great read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic mystery thriller.
Comment: For decades Mary Roberts Rinehart was the queen of mystery thrillers -- the American Agatha Christie. The Circular Staircase was Rinehart's first published novel (The Swimming Pool was her last), but it is a well-constructed work in ever way. Rinehart's special gift was in the evocation of an overlying and unremitting atmosphere of unease and potential danger and it is under such an atmosphere of apprehension that she spins her stories. For some time it has been fashionable to dismiss the novels of Mary Roberts Rinehart as old fashioned. This may apply to superficial details -- such as gas lighting -- but it definitely is not true of the novels themselves which are timeless in their ability to hold the reader in a grip of mystery and suspense. The Circular Stasircase is one of the finest mystery novels ever written.
Rating: 3
Summary: Clever, but no one edited this one
Comment: This is an enjoyable mystery in the classic mode with some deft turns. But it is completely unedited and riddled throughout with type-os and silly mistakes. Surely no person at the publishing house read this book before it was released; I'd go so far as to say no one bothered to use spell-check to detect ludicrous errors. In most cases, the correct spelling or usage is fairly easy to figure. In one, a "Mrs." should have been a "Mr." and that caused a bit of confusion. Readers appreciate these budget-priced editions, but couldn't someone at the publishing house give them a look after they've been scanned into the computer? Surely a summer intern in the editorial department might even have a good time reading this pleasant little mystery.
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Title: The Swimming Pool by Mary Roberts-Rinehart, Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 0758205376 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 1575666510 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Frightened Wife by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 1575666030 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 0758204647 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 1575661357 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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