100 Mystery Masterpieces of World Literature
A Global Anthology of Detective Puzzles, Gothic Terror, Espionage, and Psychological SuspenseBy Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Robert William Chambers, J. S. Fletcher, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, Marcel Allain, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Sax Rohmer, Erskine Childers, E. W. Hornung, Earl Derr Biggers
Length997h 7m
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100 Mystery Masterpieces of World Literature surveys the extraordinary elasticity of mystery writing, from Gothic dread, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, detective procedure, supernatural terror, and psychological crime. Its capacious selection situates investigation beside adventure, social satire, romance, and horror, revealing how the genre absorbs the anxieties of modernity. Tales of deductive brilliance, uncanny intrusions, stolen identities, international conspiracies, and domestic secrets make the volume a compelling map of mystery's many forms. The contributors constitute an international canon spanning British, American, French, Russian, and other literary traditions. Pioneers of the nineteenth-century Gothic and sensation novel meet architects of the classical detective story, while writers associated with adventure fiction, Decadence, realism, modernism, and early twentieth-century thriller culture broaden the field. Together, these voices trace mystery's evolution from Poe's foundational analytic imagination and the Victorian culture of secrecy to the cosmopolitan crime fiction and popular suspense of the interwar era. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare traditions within a single volume. Its breadth invites readers to examine changing ideas of evidence, justice, fear, class, technology, and the unknowable. Read consecutively or selectively, it fosters a rewarding dialogue among styles, nations, and literary generations.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length997 hrs 7 mins
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Publish dateOct 28, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Detective Ashton-Kirk' Cases (Complete 4 Book Collection) (Annotated)
2100 Mystery Masterpieces of World Literature
3The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
4Chapter 1 I Go to Styles
5Chapter 2 The 16th and 17th of July
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6Chapter 3 The Night of the Tragedy
7Chapter 4 Poirot Investigates
8Chapter 5 “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?”
9Chapter 6 The Inquest
10Chapter 7 Poirot Pays His Debts
11Chapter 8 Fresh Suspicions
12Chapter 9 Dr. Bauerstein
13Chapter 10 The Arrest
14Chapter 11 The Case for the Prosecution
15Chapter 12 The Last Link
16Chapter 13 Poirot Explains
17The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)
189. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
1918. Giraud Acts
2028. Journey’s End
21The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
22Prologue
23Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
24Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
25Chapter 3 A Set Back
26Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
27Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
28Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
29Chapter 7 The House in Soho
30Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
31Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
32Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
33Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
34Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
35Chapter 13 The Vigil
36Chapter 14 A Consultation
37Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
38Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
39Chapter 17 Annette
40Chapter 18 The Telegram
41Chapter 19 Jane Finn
42Chapter 20 Too Late
43Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
44Chapter 22 In Downing Street
45Chapter 23 A Race Against Time
46Chapter 24 Julius Takes a Hand
47Chapter 25 Jane’s Story
48Chapter 26 Mr. Brown
49Chapter 27 A Supper Party at the Savoy
50Chapter 28 And After
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