CRIME & MYSTERY COLLECTION: 12 Thrillers & Action-Adventure Novels (Illustrated) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian London Intrigue: 12 Illustrated Crime and Mystery ThrillersBy Richard Marsh
Length102h 52m
About this audiobook
This illustrated Crime & Mystery Collection gathers twelve of Richard Marsh's thrillers and action-adventure novels, showcasing a writer adept at sensation, suspense, disguise, pursuit, and moral ambiguity. Moving between urban criminal underworlds, imperial adventure, domestic menace, and ingenious plots of detection, the volume reflects the late-Victorian and Edwardian appetite for fast-moving popular fiction. Marsh's prose is brisk, theatrical, and alert to shock effects, yet it also reveals a sophisticated understanding of narrative misdirection and psychological unease. Richard Marsh, the pseudonym of Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915), was a prolific British author whose career ranged across horror, mystery, humour, and adventure. Best remembered for The Beetle, a sensational rival to Dracula in its day, Marsh wrote for a marketplace shaped by magazines, circulating libraries, and readers hungry for mystery and danger. His interest in crime, hidden identities, and social instability reflects the anxieties of an age marked by modern policing, urban expansion, and imperial uncertainty. This collection is highly recommended for readers of classic detective fiction, Victorian sensation novels, and early adventure thrillers. It offers both entertainment and literary-historical value, revealing Marsh as more than a cult horror novelist: he is a versatile architect of suspense whose work deserves renewed attention.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- 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
Length102 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CRIME & MYSTERY COLLECTION: 12 Thrillers & Action-Adventure Novels (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Crime and the Criminal
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6BOOK I. THE CRIME.
7CHAPTER I. THE OPEN DOOR.
8CHAPTER II. THE MAN WITH THE SILK HANDKERCHIEF.
9CHAPTER III. THE NAME ON THE SCRAP OF PAPER.
10CHAPTER IV. BLACKMAIL.
11CHAPTER V. THE FACE IN THE DARKNESS.
12CHAPTER VI. A CONFESSION.
13CHAPTER VII. A VISITOR.
14CHAPTER VIII. MORE THAN HIS MATCH.
15CHAPTER IX. FOR THE SECOND TIME.
16BOOK II. THE CLUB.
17CHAPTER X. THE HONOUR OF THE CLUB.
18CHAPTER XI. WHAT MR. TENNANT HAD WRITTEN.
19CHAPTER XII. SIR HASELTON JARDINE.
20CHAPTER XIII. AN AFTERNOON CALL.
21CHAPTER XIV. SELLING BOOMJOPFS.
22CHAPTER XV. THE CLUB.
23CHAPTER XVI. DRAWING THE LOT.
24CHAPTER XVII. A LITTLE GAME.
25CHAPTER XVIII. DAMON AND PYTHIAS: A MODERN INSTANCE.
26CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMISE.
27CHAPTER XX. THE NEWS FROM TOWN.
28BOOK III. THE WOMAN.
29CHAPTER XXI. THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT.
30CHAPTER XXII. LOUISE O'DONNEL'S FATHER.
31CHAPTER XXIII. MR. TOWNSEND COMES TO TEA.
32CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT MRS. CARRUTH SAW.
33CHAPTER XXV. MR. TOWNSEND'S DOUBLE.
34CHAPTER XXVI. ANNOUNCED!
35CHAPTER XXVII. MR. TOWNSEND IS MADE TO UNDERSTAND.
36CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PRISONER COMES INTO COURT.
37CHAPTER XXIX. THE TRIAL BEGINS.
38CHAPTER XXX. MR. TAUNTON'S EVIDENCE.
39CHAPTER XXXI. THE CASE FOR THE CROWN CONCLUDES.
40CHAPTER XXXII. MRS. CARRUTH REMOVES HER VEIL.
41BOOK IV. THE CRIMINAL.
42CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. TENNANT SPEAKS.
43CHAPTER XXXIV. MR. HOLMAN AT HOME.
44CHAPTER XXXV. THE WOMAN OF THE PORTRAIT.
45CHAPTER XXXVI. THE VARIOUS MOODS OF A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION.
46CHAPTER XXXVII. "CALL ME DORA."
47CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE THRESHOLD.
48CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LAST MEETING OF THE CLUB.
49CHAPTER XL. MR. TOWNSEND REACHES HOME.
50CHAPTER XLI. TAKING LEAVE.
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