100 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction
A Global Anthology of Gothic Crimes, Locked Rooms, Detective Puzzles, and Psychological SuspenseBy Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sinclair Lewis, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Josephine Tey, Ethel Lina White, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, Frances Noyes Hart, Theodore Dreiser, Armitage Trail, E. W. Hornung, Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, Jeffery Farnol
Length1076h 32m
About this audiobook
100 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction maps the extraordinary breadth of crime writing from Gothic terror and sensation fiction to the classical puzzle, espionage thriller, psychological suspense tale, and hard-edged urban narrative. Its hundred selections place locked rooms, poisoned inheritances, disappearances, criminal investigations, and uncanny intrusions in conversation with one another. The volume's range illuminates how murder mystery became a capacious literary form: at once an engine of plot, a study of evidence and deception, and a means of examining class, modernity, desire, and moral uncertainty. The contributors comprise an international, cross-generational constellation whose work helped establish both detective fiction's conventions and its many challenges to convention. Victorian and Edwardian innovators meet writers associated with the Gothic revival, realism, modernism, the Golden Age of Detection, adventure fiction, and early twentieth-century popular publishing. Their varied national traditions—British, American, French, Russian, and beyond—demonstrate how the genre absorbed changing ideas about policing, science, empire, urban life, and the private self. Together, these voices reveal mystery fiction as a central forum for literary experimentation as well as mass readership. Ideal for students, devoted mystery readers, and newcomers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to trace the genre's development within a single volume. Readers will find educational historical scope, striking stylistic variety, and an ongoing dialogue between rational deduction, atmospheric dread, social critique, and narrative surprise.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length1076 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHESTERTON MYSTERIES: 100+ Crime Thrillers, Murder Mysteries & Detective Tales (Annotated)
2Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
3Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
4Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 3)
5Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 4)
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6Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 5)
7Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 6)
8Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 7)
9Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 8)
10Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 9)
11Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 10)
12Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 11)
13Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 12)
14Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 13)
15Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 14)
16Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 15)
17Bleak House (Charles Dickens) (pt. 16)
18Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
19Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
20Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 3)
21Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 4)
22Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 5)
23Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 6)
24Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 7)
25Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 8)
26Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (pt. 9)
27Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
28Translator’s Preface
29Part I (pt. 1)
30Part I (pt. 2)
31Part II (pt. 1)
32Part II (pt. 2)
33Part III (pt. 1)
34Part III (pt. 2)
35Part IV (pt. 1)
36Part IV (pt. 2)
37Part V (pt. 1)
38Part V (pt. 2)
39Part VI (pt. 1)
40Part VI (pt. 2)
41The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (pt. 1)
42The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (pt. 2)
43The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (pt. 3)
44Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 1)
45Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 2)
46Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 3)
47Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 4)
48Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 5)
49Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 6)
50Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) (pt. 7)
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