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The Circular Study
Anna Katharine Green
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In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have kept it alive.
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have kept it alive.
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"An hour, sir; give me an hour, and then——"
The shutting of the door behind his flying figure cut short his sentence.
That was a long hour to Mr. Gryce, or would have been if it had not mercifully been cut short by the return of Sweetwater in an even more excited state of mind than he had been before. He held the parasol in his hand.
"My test failed," said he, "but the parasol has brought me luck, notwithstanding. I have found the lady, sir, and——"
He had to draw a long breath before proceeding.
"And she is what I said," began the detective; "a respectable person in a respectable house."
"Yes, sir; very respectable, more respectable than I expected to see. Quite a lady, sir. Not young, but——"
"Her name, boy. Is it—Evelyn?"
Sweetwater shook his. . . Read More
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#9 in the Ebebezer Gryce series. Gryce is an octogenarian NYPD detective in this series entry. The series began with The Leavenworth Case (1878). The Circular Study (1900) is named as one of the Ninety Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1975, edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. The novel
Where One Ends The Other Begins: The Mother of the Detective Novel and The Queen of Crime
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America. When Agatha wrote her first book in 1920, AKG had not published in several years. Her last book would come in just three years l
Mostly told not shown. Gryce or Butterworth scarcely appear.
This is I think the first of Anna Katherine Green's novels that I've read; it won't be the last, I'm sure. It's the tenth novel she wrote featuring NYC detective Ebenezer Gryce and the fourth (and last) to feature a spinster sleuth who helps him, Miss Amelia Butterworth; some regard Amelia Butterwor
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first mystery writers in the United States and was hugely popular in her time.
Called "the mother of the detective novel", she was known for her well-plotted, character-driven stories, and this novel is no exception.
A tale of two families, betrayal, rev
Once again, I loved a book by Anna K. Green. The fact that it is set in the late 19th Century only adds to the enjoyment for me as I love to learn all about life in that era. I also like the way we are set up to believe that A or B or even C is the obvious perpetrator but then it turns out to be G,