Christmas Murder Mystery Boxed-Set
Victorian and Golden Age Holiday Tales of Snowbound Murders, Locked Rooms, and Festive DeceptionBy Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Kendrick Bangs, Agatha Christie, Robert Barr, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, Wilkie Collins, Grace Livingston Hill, Edgar Wallace, Melville Davisson Post, Paul Thorne, Mabel Thorne, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, Victor L. Whitechurch
Length383h 15m
About this audiobook
Christmas Murder Mystery Boxed-Set gathers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crime fiction around the charged seasonal setting of Christmas, where domestic warmth, charity, inheritance, travel, and festivity become occasions for concealment and detection. Its range encompasses Gothic suspense, sensation fiction, puzzle-based mysteries, comic tales, gentleman-thief adventures, and the emerging golden-age detective story. Amid country houses, crowded holiday gatherings, and shadowed urban interiors, the collection demonstrates how Christmas can heighten both communal intimacy and criminal suspicion. The volume brings together writers central to the formation of popular detective and mystery literature on both sides of the Atlantic. Its contributors include architects of the modern detective tale, influential practitioners of the sensation novel and Gothic mode, and major figures associated with the clue-centered traditions that would shape twentieth-century crime writing. Their varied social settings, investigative methods, and narrative voices reveal the genre's development from melodramatic secrecy and amateur inquiry to more formalized deduction, while also registering contemporary concerns about class, family, property, and respectability. Ideal for readers of classic crime fiction and students of literary history, this boxed set offers an unusually broad survey of seasonal mystery in a single library. Read together, these works invite comparison across styles, periods, and national traditions, making the volume both an entertaining holiday companion and a valuable introduction to the enduring dialogue between Christmas custom and criminal intrigue.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length383 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Roman Hat Mystery
2Edgar Allan Poe
3The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4The Mystery of Marie Roget
5The Purloined Letter
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6Agatha Christie
7The Mysterious Affair at Styles
8Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
9Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
10Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
11Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
12Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
13Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
14Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
15Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
16Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
17Chapter 10 THE ARREST
18Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
19Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
20Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
21The Murder on the Links
229. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2318. Giraud Acts
2428. Journey’s End
25The Kidnapped Prime Minister
26The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
27The Secret Adversary
28Prologue
29Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
30Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
31Chapter 3 A Set Back
32Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
33Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
34Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
35Chapter 7 The House in Soho
36Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
37Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
38Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
39Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
40Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
41Chapter 13 The Vigil
42Chapter 14 A Consultation
43Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
44Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
45Chapter 17 Annette
46Chapter 18 The Telegram
47Chapter 19 Jane Finn
48Chapter 20 Too Late
49Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
50Chapter 22 In Downing Street
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