The Circular Staircase was one of the greatest bestsellers of all time, and Mary Roberts Rinehart lived here when she wrote it—just half a block up Beech Avenue from the house where Gertrude Stein, a writer with a somewhat different style, was born. The success of The Circular Staircase made Mary Roberts Rinehart one of the most powerful literary figures in America, and her good business sense consolidated that power into a publishing empire for her family.
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My wife grew up across the street from the Rinehart estate in Glenn Osborne, which they purchased in 1911. She continued writing then and took the train into town every day to work in her office in Jenkins Arcade.