The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Detective Mr. Gryce is called to the house of a recluse, Mr Adams, as he has been discovered stabbed to death in the circular study at the centre of the house. In this he is helped by an amateur sleuth, Miss Amelia Butterworth. The only other person in the house at the time is a deaf and dumb butler, and a caged starling that can repeat some of the words that it has heard.
An enjoyable mystery.
Originally written in 1900

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