The Circular Study
Ebenezer Gryce is thinking about quitting detective work, but a curious case delays his retirement. It's the murder of a wealthy old man in a locked room, a circular study with lights that change colours and walls that move. There's a also a talking parrot who keeps saying "Remember Evelyn," and...
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Ebenezer Gryce is thinking about quitting detective work, but a curious case delays his retirement. It's the murder of a wealthy old man in a locked room, a circular study with lights that change colours and walls that move. There's a also a talking parrot who keeps saying "Remember Evelyn," and a servant who doesn't talk at all but is clearly a bubble off. What can it all mean? A clue leads Gryce to Miss Butterworth, who is only too willing to help the investigation.
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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1900
Publisher: McClure, Phillips & co.
Pages no: 289
Edition language: English
Series: Mr. Gryce (#10)
In my unofficial quest to read all of Anna Katherine Green's work, The Circular Study is my first Amelia Butterworth mystery. Amelia Butterworth is credited as the prototype of the spinster amateur detective, a category that includes Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver, and Christie's infamous Miss Ma...
Seemed unnecessarily stretched out. Also, there was like no sleuthing going on.
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