# Paul Armstrong — The Circular Staircase character guide

> Paul Armstrong in The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mr. Armstrong, Paul, Mr. Paul Armstrong

**First appearance:** 0000-i-i-take-a-country-house

## Who they are

The patriarch of the Armstrong family.

## In the story

### [I: I Take a Country House](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_circular_staircase_se/chapters/i-i-take-a-country-house)

Owner of Sunnyside and president of the Traders' Bank, who is out west with his family.

### [X: The Traders’ Bank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_circular_staircase_se/chapters/x-the-traders-bank)

Paul Armstrong is reported dead in California, and Halsey suspects he looted his own bank.

### [The Odds and Ends](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_circular_staircase_se/chapters/xxxiv-the-odds-and-ends)

Faked his death with Doctor Walker's help to loot the bank; now truly dead and buried in Casanova churchyard.

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