The Circular Study: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Circular Study, credited to Anna Katharine Green, 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 Study by Anna Katharine Green. Read by Christine Dufour 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. Anna Katharine Green was a pioneering writer of detective fiction in the United States. Her first such novel, The Leavenworth Case, was published in 1878. She is credited with changing the genre by making her stories legally accurate. She invented the "girl detective." But her works remained popular because of their lively, twisting plots and the strong characters she developed. (Summary by Christine Dufour)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Circular Study
• Author credits: Anna Katharine Green
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 6:15:08

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• fiction
• New York City' detective fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Book I, Chapter 1 — 11:46
2. 02 - Book I, Chapter 2 — 17:31
3. 03 - Book I, Chapter 3 — 10:08
4. 04 - Book I, Chapter 4 — 15:22
5. 05 - Book I, Chapter 5 — 27:03
6. 06 - Book I, Chapter 6 — 27:42
7. 07 - Book I, Chapter 7 — 20:26
8. 08 - Book I, Chapter 8 — 20:38
9. 09 - Book I, Chapter 9 — 10:21
10. 10 - Book I, Chapter 10 — 26:41
11. 11 - Book I, Chapter 11 — 19:46
12. 12 - Book I, Chapter 12 — 8:16
13. 13 - Book I, Chapter 13 — 12:40
14. 14 - Book I, Chapter 14 — 6:13
15. 15 - Book II, Chapter 1, Part 1 — 21:05
16. 16 - Book II, Chapter 1, Part 2 — 14:37
17. 17 - Book II, Chapter 2 — 15:27
18. 18 - Book II, Chapter 3, Part 1 — 22:29
19. 19 - Book II, Chapter 3, Part 2 — 15:35
20. 20 - Book II, Chapter 4 — 9:01
21. 21 - Book II, Chapter 5 — 28:49
22. 22 - Book II, Chapters 6 and 7 — 13:42

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