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The Circular Study: By the woman who inspired Agatha Christie!
The Circular Study By the woman who inspired Agatha Christie Author:Anna Katharine Green Read the work of the woman who inspired Agatha Christie! THE CIRCULAR STUDY features Ebenezer Gryce, a portly policeman who together with Mrs. Amelia Butterworth, the little old lady snoop who inspired the creation of Mary Roberts Rinehart's Miss Rachel Innes, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver (to cite just a few... more » examples) must solve the murder! Told in a variety of formats (i.e. narrative, letters, diary) & by different characters - it provides clues for the reader so they become detectives too - a powerful technique few authors could match. She was the first female writer of detective fiction and today still sets the standard. Green's many fans included such literary luminaries as Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Agatha Christie. In fact, both Rinehart and Christie claimed that it was Green which first inspired them to become writers. Her books were loved by Doyle, Rinehart, and Christie - and soon by you too!« less