75+ BEDTIME COSY MYSTERY TALES - Premium Collection (Thriller Classics Series) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Holmes-inspired cosy mysteries with Eugène Valmont and Glasgow intrigueBy Robert Barr
Length50h 12m
About this audiobook
This expansive collection gathers Robert Barr's genial yet ingenious mystery fiction into a volume designed for leisurely nighttime reading. Its tales favor wit, atmosphere, and puzzle-making over brutality, placing them in the late-Victorian and Edwardian tradition of magazine mysteries that flourished alongside Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Barr's prose is urbane, brisk, and conversational, often balancing suspense with irony, social observation, and a cosmopolitan sense of place. Robert Barr (1849–1912), born in Scotland and raised in Canada, worked as a teacher, journalist, and editor before becoming a prolific author in Britain. His career in periodical culture—especially as co-founder of The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome—shaped his gift for compact narrative, memorable situations, and readerly entertainment. His detective Eugène Valmont reflects Barr's fascination with transatlantic manners, professional vanity, and the comic limits of rational detection. Recommended for readers who enjoy classic mysteries without excessive darkness, this premium collection offers both historical pleasure and narrative variety. It will especially appeal to admirers of Victorian detective fiction, elegant short stories, and cosy suspense grounded in intelligence, charm, and literary craftsmanship.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length50 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 12, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
175+ BEDTIME COSY MYSTERY TALES - Premium Collection (Thriller Classics Series) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds
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6The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower
7The Clue of the Silver Spoons
8Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune
9The Absent-Minded Coterie
10The Ghost with the Club-Foot
11The Liberation of Wyoming Ed
12Lady Alicia's Emeralds
13The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs
14The Adventure of the Second Swag
15An Alpine Divorce
16Which Was The Murderer?
17A Dynamite Explosion
18An Electrical Slip
19The Vengeance of the Dead
20Over The Stelvio Pass
21The Hour and the Man
22"And the Rigour of the Game"
23The Bromley Gibberts Story
24Not According to the Code
25A Modern Samson
26A Deal on 'Change
27Transformation
28The Shadow of the Greenback
29The Understudy
30"Out Of Thun"
311.—BESSIE'S BEHAVIOUR.
32II.—BESSIE'S CONFESSION.
33III.—BESSIE'S PROPOSAL.
34A Dramatic Point
35Two Florentine Balconies
36The Exposure of Lord Stansford
37Purification
38The Woman of Stone
39The Chemistry of Anarchy
40The Fear of It
41The Metamorphoses of Johnson
42The Reclamation of Joe Hollends
43The Type-Written Letter
44The Doom of London
45I.—THE SELF-CONCEIT OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
46II.—WHY LONDON, WARNED, WAS UNPREPARED.
47III.—THE COINCIDENCE THAT CAME AT LAST.
48IV.—THE AMERICAN WHO WANTED TO SELL.
49V.—THE AMERICAN SEES SIR JOHN.
50VI.—HOW THE SMOKE HELD DOWN THE FOG.
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