Books like The Circular Staircase

The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart reads as suspenseful, atmospheric. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Black Robe

Wilkie Collins · 1881

Both explore inheritance

74% genome match

The Yellow Room

Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1945

Both explore inheritance & betrayal

83% genome match

The Lodger

Marie Belloc Lowndes · 1913

Same thriller feel

67% genome match

A strange disappearance

Anna Katharine Green · 1879

Same mystery feel

64% genome match

Angel street

Patrick Hamilton · 1942

Both explore suspense

67% genome match

The daffodil murder

Edgar Wallace · 1921

Both explore suspense

78% genome match

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Same classic feel

59% genome match

Winterwood

Dorothy Eden · 1967

Both explore inheritance & suspense

75% genome match

Hunter's Green

Phyllis A. Whitney · 1968

Both explore inheritance & suspense

75% genome match

Lock and Key Library -- Real Life

Julian Hawthorne · 1909

Same mystery feel

72% genome match

Lady Audley's secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862

Same classic feel

56% genome match

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters · 2002

Both explore betrayal

52% genome match