The Circular Staircase: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Circular Staircase, credited to Mary Roberts Rinehart, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Circular Staircase, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious events, ghostly apparitions, things that go bump in the night and murder. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Circular Staircase
• Author credits: Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 7:40:02

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - I Take a Country House — 14:29
2. 02 - A Link Cuff-Button — 14:06
3. 03 - Mr. John Bailey Appears — 9:23
4. 04 - Where Is Halsey — 10:10
5. 05 - Gertrude's Engagement — 10:35
6. 06 - In the East Corridor — 11:31
7. 07 - A Sprained Ankle — 11:27
8. 08 - The Other Half of the Line — 17:44
9. 09 - Just Like a Girl — 15:11
10. 10 - The Traders Bank — 16:43
11. 11 - Halsey Makes a Capture — 11:06
12. 12 - One Mystery for Another — 16:45
13. 13 - Louise — 23:58
14. 14 - An Eggnog and a Telegram — 12:31
15. 15 - Liddy Gives the Alarm — 10:50
16. 16 - In the Early Morning — 10:06
17. 17 - A Hint of Scandal — 14:31
18. 18 - A Hole in the Wall — 12:11
19. 19 - Concerning Thomas — 10:24
20. 20 - Doctor Walker's Warning — 12:40
21. 21 - Fourteen Elm Street — 21:23
22. 22 - A Ladder Out of Place — 9:25
23. 23 - While the Stables Burned — 10:44
24. 24 - Flinders — 10:27

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