30 Masterminds of Mystery
A Transatlantic Anthology of Victorian Detectives, Locked Rooms, Gothic Investigations, and Crime PioneersBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Émile Gaboriau, Gaston Leroux, G. K. Chesterton, Andrew Forrester, Dorothy Fielding, Thomas W. Hanshew, Mary E. Hanshew, Herbert Jenkins, Wilkie Collins, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Anna Katharine Green, Arthur Morrison, Maurice Leblanc, Victor L. Whitechurch, Algernon Blackwood, John R. Coryell, Melville Davisson Post, Ellis Parker Butler, Robert Barr, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Francis Worcester Doughty, Allan Pinkerton, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Percy James Brebner, Lawrence L. Lynch, James Edward Muddock, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Length850h 18m
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30 Masterminds of Mystery surveys the formative decades of detective and sensation fiction, assembling tales that move from rational deduction and police procedure to gothic unease, criminal ingenuity, and comic reversal. Its range reflects the genre's international development: locked-room puzzles, stolen-identity plots, urban investigations, scientific clues, and encounters with the uncanny sit beside narratives of professional detectives and audacious amateurs. The volume's standout achievements lie in this interplay between the orderly restoration of truth and the persistent shadow of ambiguity. The contributors constitute a remarkably broad Anglo-American and European genealogy of mystery writing, including architects of the detective novel, practitioners of the sensation tradition, popular magazine storytellers, and innovators in supernatural suspense. Their collective work records the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century rise of crime fiction alongside modern urban culture, expanding print markets, forensic interest, and anxieties surrounding class, gender, empire, and anonymity. Varied national settings and narrative methods reveal that mystery was never a single formula, but a flexible literary response to changing social knowledge. Recommended for students, devoted mystery readers, and scholars of popular literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with the genre's early possibilities. Reading across its diverse voices illuminates how clues, concealment, detection, and surprise acquire different ethical and aesthetic meanings. It is both an engaging compendium and a valuable invitation to trace the dialogue between foundational traditions of suspense.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length850 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE MARY LOUISE SERIES (Children's Mystery & Detective Books) (Annotated)
230 Masterminds of Mystery
3Sherlock Holmes
4An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes
5A STUDY IN SCARLET
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6CHAPTER I MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
7CHAPTER II THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8CHAPTER III THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
9CHAPTER IV WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
10CHAPTER V OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
11CHAPTER VI TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
12CHAPTER VII LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
13CHAPTER I ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
14CHAPTER II THE FLOWER OF UTAH
15CHAPTER III JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
16CHAPTER IV A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
17CHAPTER V THE AVENGING ANGELS
18CHAPTER VII THE CONCLUSION
19THE SIGN OF FOUR
20CHAPTER I THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
21CHAPTER II THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE
22CHAPTER III IN QUEST OF A SOLUTION
23CHAPTER IV THE STORY OF THE BALD-HEADED MAN
24CHAPTER V THE TRAGEDY OF PONDICHERRY LODGE
25CHAPTER VI SHERLOCK HOLMES GIVES A DEMONSTRATION
26CHAPTER VII THE EPISODE OF THE BARREL
27CHAPTER VIII THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS
28CHAPTER IX A BREAK IN THE CHAIN
29CHAPTER X THE END OF THE ISLANDER
30CHAPTER XI THE GREAT AGRA TREASURE
31CHAPTER XII THE STRANGE STORY OF JONATHAN SMALL
32THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
33IS (pt. 1)
34IS (pt. 2)
35IS (pt. 3)
36IS (pt. 4)
37IS (pt. 5)
38THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pt. 1)
39THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pt. 2)
40THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pt. 3)
41THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pt. 4)
42THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pt. 5)
43THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
44CHAPTER I MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
45CHAPTER II THE CURSE OF THE BASKERVILLES
46CHAPTER III THE PROBLEM
47CHAPTER IV SIR HENRY BASKERVILLE
48CHAPTER V THREE BROKEN THREADS
49CHAPTER VI BASKERVILLE HALL
50CHAPTER VII THE STAPLETONS OF MERRIPIT HOUSE
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