Christmas Under the Veil of Mystery – Ultimate Collection for the Murder Mystery Holiday
Classic Yuletide Crimes, Gothic Suspense, and Detective PuzzlesBy Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch, Anna Katharine Green, G. K. Chesterton, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mabel Thorne, Paul Thorne, Marion Harvey, Grace Livingston Hill
Length383h 16m
About this audiobook
Christmas Under the Veil of Mystery gathers holiday tales in which festivity, domestic intimacy, and winter's enclosing darkness become occasions for detection, deception, and revelation. Spanning puzzle plots, sensation fiction, comic misdirection, supernatural unease, and criminal adventure, the volume places the Christmas setting in productive tension with murder and mystery. Its range extends from the locked-room-like intricacies and evidentiary logic of classic detection to Gothic atmospheres, burglar narratives, and sharply observed social comedy, with celebrated seasonal mysteries standing beside less familiar variations on the form. The contributors represent a broad transatlantic genealogy of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Canonical architects of detective narrative appear alongside practitioners of sensation, imperial adventure, domestic suspense, and humorous fantasy; together they illuminate the genre's movement from Victorian melodrama toward the codified clue-based mystery. Their differing national contexts, narrative temperaments, and approaches to crime reveal Christmas not merely as decoration but as a cultural ritual through which anxieties about family, class, charity, secrecy, and justice are explored. This collection is recommended for readers of classic crime fiction, students of popular literary history, and anyone seeking a more shadowed holiday reading experience. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles and conventions within one volume, tracing how varied voices transform seasonal cheer into suspenseful inquiry. The anthology's internal dialogue makes it both entertaining and instructive, inviting reflection on the enduring adaptability of the mystery tale.
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length383 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Murder Mysteries to Solve on Christmas Eve (Annotated)
2Christmas Under the Veil of Mystery – Ultimate Collection for the Murder Mystery Holiday
3Edgar Allan Poe
4The Murders in the Rue Morgue
5The Mystery of Marie Roget
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6The Purloined Letter
7Agatha Christie
8The Mysterious Affair at Styles
9Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
10Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
11Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
12Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
13Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
14Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
15Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
16Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
17Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
18Chapter 10 THE ARREST
19Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
20Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
21Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
22The Murder on the Links
239. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2418. Giraud Acts
2528. Journey’s End
26The Kidnapped Prime Minister
27The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
28The Secret Adversary
29Prologue
30Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
31Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
32Chapter 3 A Set Back
33Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
34Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
35Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
36Chapter 7 The House in Soho
37Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
38Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
39Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
40Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
41Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
42Chapter 13 The Vigil
43Chapter 14 A Consultation
44Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
45Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
46Chapter 17 Annette
47Chapter 18 The Telegram
48Chapter 19 Jane Finn
49Chapter 20 Too Late
50Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
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