A CHAIN OF EVIDENCE (Murder Mystery Classic)
A Classic Clue-Centered Drawing-Room Murder Mystery of Logic and EvidenceBy Carolyn Wells
Length7h 31m
About this audiobook
Carolyn Wells's A Chain of Evidence exemplifies the classic American detective novel, combining a murder investigation with the pleasures of deduction, suspense, and carefully staged revelation. The title announces its governing principle: apparently separate facts, testimonies, and physical clues must be connected into a coherent evidentiary sequence. Wells writes in the lucid, dialogue-driven manner associated with Golden Age precursors, balancing ominous atmosphere with wit, social observation, and the intellectual exhilaration of a puzzle resolved by reason. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century expansion of popular crime fiction, when readers increasingly valued the detective as an analytical hero and the mystery as a fair contest between author and audience. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) was an exceptionally prolific American author, poet, humorist, and anthologist whose career helped establish detective fiction as a major form of popular literature. Her wide familiarity with literary convention, comic characterization, and verse informed her mysteries, while her sustained interest in puzzles and ingenious crimes shaped the investigative world of her celebrated detective, Fleming Stone. Wells wrote for an audience fascinated by modern criminal inquiry and by the possibility that logic could restore order to a world of uncertainty. This book is recommended to readers who enjoy foundational detective fiction, intricate clue structures, and the historical development of the mystery genre. It will particularly reward those interested in the transition from sensational crime narratives to the more disciplined, clue-centered traditions later perfected by Golden Age writers. A Chain of Evidence offers both an absorbing investigation and a revealing document of American popular literary culture.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WITH LINKS OF STEEL - The Peril of the Unknown (Detective Nick Carter Mystery)
14XIII. Janet Is Mysterious
2I. The Girl Across the Hall
15XIV. Mrs. Altonstall
3II. The Tragedy
16XV. Who Is J. & S.?
4III. Janet Pembroke
17XVI. Leroy Arrives on the Scene
5IV. Doctor Post's Discovery
18XVII. Can Leroy Be Guilty?
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6V. Several Clues
19XVIII. The Rooms in Washington Square
7VI. The Inquest Begins
20XIX. A Talk With Janet
8VII. I Give Evidence
21XX. The Initialed Handkerchief
9VIII. An Awful Implication
22XXI. Fleming Stone
10IX. George Lawrence
23XXII. A Call on Miss Waring
11X. Person or Persons Unknown
24XXIII. Lawrence's Statement
12XI. The Chained Door
25XXIV. The Chain of Evidence
13XII. Janet Is Our Guest
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