A review by showell
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

2.0

I read this bc Rinehart is said to be the American Agatha Christie, and I have been enjoying rereading Poirot lately. Rinehart, who wrote this around 1908, didn’t age well as Christie. I would describe this book not as an American Agatha Christie, but as being what a Nancy Drew mystery would be if Nancy were in her fifties and racist. I am told that Rinehart is funny, but the casual racism robbed this book of any humor for me.