
ANNIE HAYNES - Ultimate Collection of Golden Age Murder Mysteries (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete Inspector Furnival & Inspector Stoddart Series (Thriller Classics)By Annie HaynesLength53h 22m
About this audiobook
ANNIE HAYNES - Ultimate Collection of Golden Age Murder Mysteries gathers the taut, clue-driven fiction of a writer whose work helped shape the interwar British detective tradition. These novels and stories feature country-house secrets, contested inheritances, cryptic deaths, and carefully staged revelations, yet their appeal lies equally in Haynes's crisp pacing, atmospheric interiors, and sharp attention to class, reputation, and gendered vulnerability. Written in the flourishing context of Golden Age crime fiction, they combine puzzle-plot discipline with a darker melodramatic intensity. Annie Haynes remains one of the more intriguing early women practitioners of detective fiction. Active in the 1920s and publishing with notable success before her premature death in 1929, she wrote at a moment when female authors were transforming the genre's possibilities. Her sensitivity to domestic spaces, social constraint, and hidden emotional violence suggests an author alert to the anxieties beneath respectable English life, and her fiction often turns those pressures into engines of suspense. This collection is warmly recommended to readers of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and E. C. R. Lorac, as well as to anyone interested in recovering neglected voices from crime fiction's formative decades. It offers both engrossing entertainment and a valuable window onto the genre's early sophistication.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- 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
Length53 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 4, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26Chapter XXIII
2Inspector Furnival Series
27Chapter XXIV
3The Abbey Court Murder (1923)
28Chapter XXV
4Chapter I
29Chapter XXVI
5Chapter II
30Chapter XXVII
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6Chapter III
31Chapter XXVIII
7Chapter IV
32Chapter XXIX
8Chapter V
33Chapter XXX
9Chapter VI
34Chapter XXXI
10Chapter VII
35Chapter XXXII
11Chapter VIII
36The House in Charlton Crescent (1926)
12Chapter IX
37Chapter I
13Chapter X
38Chapter II
14Chapter XI
39Chapter III
15Chapter XII
40Chapter IV
16Chapter XIII
41Chapter V
17Chapter XIV
42Chapter VI
18Chapter XV
43Chapter VII
19Chapter XVI
44Chapter VIII
20Chapter XVII
45Chapter IX
21Chapter XVIII
46Chapter X
22Chapter XIX
47Chapter XI
23Chapter XX
48Chapter XII
24Chapter XXI
49Chapter XIII
25Chapter XXII
50Chapter XIV