The Circular Study (Unabridged‪)‬

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

Red Light
Mysteries
The Mute Servitor
A New Experience for Mr. Gryce
Five Small Spangles
Suggestions From an Old Friend
Amos's Son
In the Round of the Staircase
High and Low
Bride Roses
Misery
Thomas Explains
Despair
Memoranda


BOOK II. REMEMBER EVELYN

The Secret of the Cadwaladers
The Oath
Eva
Felix
Why the Iron Slide Remained Stationary
Answered
Last Words