DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Tales of Mystery & Revenge in One Volume (Thriller Classics Series) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian mysteries of revenge, Valmont, and sharp twistsBy Robert Barr
Length17h 30m
About this audiobook
Death Cometh Soon or Late gathers more than thirty-five of Robert Barr's tales of mystery, vengeance, fraud, and moral reckoning, presenting the late-Victorian short thriller at its most urbane and ingenious. Barr's fiction moves briskly through drawing rooms, city streets, newspaper offices, and criminal haunts, combining melodramatic incident with a journalist's eye for social detail. His style is marked by irony, compressed plotting, and a taste for reversals, placing him in the lively context of fin-de-siècle popular fiction alongside detective, sensation, and adventure writing. Robert Barr (1849–1912), born in Scotland and raised in Canada, brought to fiction the habits of a transatlantic newspaperman. After teaching and working for the Detroit Free Press, he settled in London, where he became a prominent literary journalist and co-founded The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. His professional familiarity with crime reports, public scandal, and metropolitan wit helped shape stories alert to both human folly and institutional hypocrisy. This volume is recommended for readers of classic mystery who want more than puzzles alone: Barr offers elegant suspense, satirical intelligence, and revenge narratives charged with ethical ambiguity. Admirers of Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, and Victorian crime fiction will find here a rich, highly readable collection.
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, General Fiction
Length17 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 12, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Tales of Mystery & Revenge in One Volume (Thriller Classics Series)
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6Face and the Mask
7Death Cometh Soon or Late
8The Woman of Stone
9The Chemistry of Anarchy
10The Fear of It
11The Metamorphoses of Johnson
12The Reclamation of Joe Hollends
13The Type-Written Letter
14The Doom of London
15I.—THE SELF-CONCEIT OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
16II.—WHY LONDON, WARNED, WAS UNPREPARED.
17III.—THE COINCIDENCE THAT CAME AT LAST.
18IV.—THE AMERICAN WHO WANTED TO SELL.
19V.—THE AMERICAN SEES SIR JOHN.
20VI.—HOW THE SMOKE HELD DOWN THE FOG.
21VII.—THE TRAIN WITH ITS TRAIL OF THE DEAD.
22The Predicament of De Plonville
23A New Explosive
24The Great Pegram Mystery
25High Stakes
26"Where Ignorance Is Bliss"
27The Departure of Cub Mclean
28Old Number Eighty-Six
29Playing With Marked Cards
30The Bruiser's Courtship
31The Raid On Mellish
32Striking Back
33Crandall's Choice
34The Failure of Bradley
35Ringamy's Convert
36A Slippery Customer
37The Sixth Bench
38Revenge!
39An Alpine Divorce
40Which Was The Murderer?
41A Dynamite Explosion
42An Electrical Slip
43The Vengeance of the Dead
44Over The Stelvio Pass
45The Hour and the Man
46"And the Rigour of the Game"
47The Bromley Gibberts Story
48Not According to the Code
49A Modern Samson
50A Deal on 'Change
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