A Mysterious Disappearance (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Detective Claude Bruce Murder MysteryBy Gordon Holmes
Length9h 38m
About this audiobook
A Mysterious Disappearance is a taut Edwardian mystery built around the vanishing of Lady Dyke and the unsettling social reverberations that follow. Combining the inheritance of Victorian sensation fiction with the emerging conventions of the modern detective novel, the narrative moves through drawing rooms, legal chambers, and police inquiry with brisk, lucid prose. Its pleasures lie not only in plot but in its scrutiny of respectability, suspicion, and the fragility of public reputation. Gordon Holmes was a pseudonym of Louis Tracy, the prolific British journalist and popular novelist whose familiarity with newspapers, crime reporting, and metropolitan life helped shape his fiction's energetic realism. Tracy's professional background is evident in the novel's attention to procedure, evidence, and the circulation of rumor. His work belongs to the same transitional culture that produced Sherlock Holmes's successors: rational, urbane investigators navigating a rapidly modernizing society. Readers interested in classic detective fiction will find this novel both entertaining and historically revealing. It rewards those who enjoy intricate clues, polished period atmosphere, and mysteries in which social manners conceal darker truths.
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Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 7, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2CHAPTER I “LAST SEEN AT VICTORIA!”
3CHAPTER II INSPECTOR WHITE
4CHAPTER III THE LADY’S MAID
5CHAPTER IV NO. 61 RALEIGH MANSIONS
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6CHAPTER V AT THE JOLLITY THEATRE
7CHAPTER VI MISS MARIE LE MARCHANT
8CHAPTER VII IN THE CITY
9CHAPTER VIII THE HOTEL DU CERCLE
10CHAPTER IX BREAKING THE BANK
11CHAPTER X SOME GOOD RESOLUTIONS
12CHAPTER XI THEORIES
13CHAPTER XII WHO CORBETT WAS
14CHAPTER XIII A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
15CHAPTER XIV NO 12 RALEIGH MANSIONS
16CHAPTER XV MRS. HILLMER HESITATES
17CHAPTER XVI FOXEY
18CHAPTER XVII A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION
19CHAPTER XVIII WHAT HAPPENED ON THE RIVIERA
20CHAPTER XIX WHERE MRS. HILLMER WENT
21CHAPTER XX MR. SYDNEY H. CORBETT
22CHAPTER XXI HOW LADY DYKE LEFT RALEIGH MANSIONS
23CHAPTER XXII A WILFUL MURDER
24CHAPTER XXIII THE LETTER
25CHAPTER XXIV THE HANDWRITING
26CHAPTER XXV MISS PHYLLIS BROWNE INTERVENES
27CHAPTER XXVI LADY HELEN MONTGOMERY’S SON
28CHAPTER XXVII MR. WHITE’S METHOD
29CHAPTER XXVIII SIR CHARLES DYKE’S JOURNEY
30CHAPTER XXIX HOW LADY DYKE DISAPPEARED
31CHAPTER XXX SIR CHARLES DYKE ENDS HIS NARRATIVE
32CHAPTER XXXI VALEDICTORY
33Memorable Quotes
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