Detectives White & Furneaux' Cases (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. 5 Thriller Novels in One Volume: The Postmaster's Daughter, Number Seventeen, The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley, The De Bercy Affair & What Would You Have Done?By Louis Tracy
Length40h 12m
About this audiobook
Detectives White & Furneaux' Cases gathers Louis Tracy's Scotland Yard mysteries centered on the contrasting investigators James White and Charles Furneaux. Combining brisk plotting with urbane wit, the stories belong to the Golden Age's immediate prehistory, when sensation fiction, newspaper realism, and deductive puzzle-making were converging. Tracy's style favors lucid exposition, sharp social observation, and a theatrical management of clues, while the detectives' differing temperaments give the investigations both methodical weight and comic vitality. Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was a British journalist and prolific popular novelist whose experience in newspapers helped shape his alertness to public scandal, criminal procedure, and the rhythms of modern urban life. Writing adventure, romance, and crime fiction, sometimes in collaboration and under pseudonyms, he understood the appetite of early twentieth-century readers for stories that joined topical immediacy to orderly resolution. White and Furneaux reflect that professional familiarity with institutions, headlines, and human duplicity. This book is recommended for readers interested in the evolution of detective fiction before Christie and Sayers, and for anyone who enjoys ingenious mysteries delivered with Edwardian polish, narrative speed, and characterful investigative partnership.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length40 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
47CHAPTER VII Some Side Issues
2Detectives White & Furneaux’ Cases
48CHAPTER VIII Coincidences
3The Postmaster's Daughter
49CHAPTER IX Wherein an Artist Becomes a Man of Action
4CHAPTER I The Face at the Window
50CHAPTER X Furneaux States Some Facts and Certain Fancies
5CHAPTER II P. C. Robinson "Takes a Line"
51CHAPTER XI Some Preliminary Skirmishing
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6CHAPTER III The Gathering Clouds
52CHAPTER XII Wherein Scotland Yard is Dined and Wined
7CHAPTER IV A Cabal
53CHAPTER XIII Close Quarters
8CHAPTER V The Seeds of Mischief
54CHAPTER XIV The Spreading of the Net
9CHAPTER VI Scotland Yard Takes a Hand
55CHAPTER XV Some Stage Effects
10CHAPTER VII "Alarums and Excursions
56CHAPTER XVI The Close of a Tragedy
11CHAPTER VIII An Interrupted Symposium
57CHAPTER XVII The Settlement
12CHAPTER IX How Whom the Cap Fits—
58The De Bercy Affair
13CHAPTER X The Case Against Grant
59CHAPTER I SOME PHASES OF THE PROBLEM
14CHAPTER XI P. C. Robinson Takes Another Line
60CHAPTER II DARKNESS
15CHAPTER XII Wherein Winter Gets to Work
61CHAPTER III A CHANGE OF ADDRESS
16CHAPTER XIII Concerning Theodore Siddle
62CHAPTER IV THE NEW LIFE
17CHAPTER XIV On Both Sides of the River
63CHAPTER V THE MISSING BLADE
18CHAPTER XV A Matter of Heredity
64CHAPTER VI TO TORMOUTH
19CHAPTER XVI Furneaux Makes a Successful Bid
65CHAPTER VII AT TORMOUTH
20CHAPTER XVII An Official Housebreaker
66CHAPTER VIII AT THE SUN-DIAL
21CHAPTER XVIII The Truth at Last
67CHAPTER IX THE LETTER
22Number Seventeen
68CHAPTER X THE DIARY, AND ROSALIND
23CHAPTER I THE OUTCOME OF ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
69CHAPTER XI ENTRAPPED!
24CHAPTER II THE COMPACT
70CHAPTER XII THE SARACEN DAGGER
25CHAPTER III IN THE TOILS
71CHAPTER XIII OSBORNE MAKES A VOW
26CHAPTER IV A TELEPHONIC TALK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
72CHAPTER XIV THE ARRESTS
27CHAPTER V A LEAP IN THE DARK
73CHAPTER XV CLEARING THE AIR
28CHAPTER VI CLOSE QUARTERS
74CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN TWO WOMEN TAKE THE FIELD
29CHAPTER VII WHEREIN MR. FORBES EXPLAINS HIMSELF
75CHAPTER XVII THE CLOSING SCENE
30CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST COUNTER-STROKE
76What Would You Have Done?
31CHAPTER IX SHARP WORK
77CHAPTER I WHY THE GIRL IN THE CAR TURNED BACK
32CHAPTER X CAPTURES ON BOTH SIDES
78CHAPTER II THE ONLY WITNESS
33CHAPTER XI THE REAPPEARANCE OF HANDYSIDE
79CHAPTER IV WHAT BETTY DISCOVERED
34CHAPTER XII NO SURRENDER
80CHAPTER V THE C.I.D. IN ACTION
35CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW MOVES IN THE GAME
81CHAPTER VI MANNERING IS ENLISTED
36CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN THEYDON SUFFERS FROM FAINT HEART
82CHAPTER VII THE CURTAINED WINDOW
37CHAPTER XV FORCEFUL TACTICS
83CHAPTER VIII A FOUR-FOOTED DETECTIVE
38CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN UNEXPECTED ALLIES APPEAR
84CHAPTER IX SOME DISTURBING THEORIES
39CHAPTER XVII THE SETTLEMENT
85CHAPTER X CLOSE QUARTERS
40The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
86CHAPTER XI FOXTON WAKES UP
41CHAPTER I The Water Nymphs
87CHAPTER XII DRAWING THE COVERTS
42CHAPTER II "Who Hath Done This Thing?"
88CHAPTER XIII THE PACK IN FULL CRY
43CHAPTER III THE HOUNDS
89CHAPTER XIV THE CHASE HEADS FOR THE SOUTH
44CHAPTER IV Breaking Cover
90CHAPTER XV WHEREIN THE STORM BLOWS ITSELF OUT
45CHAPTER V A Family Gathering
91CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN REALITY SUPPLANTS ROMANCE
46CHAPTER VI Wherein Furneaux Seeks Inspiration From Literature and Art
92Memorable Quotes
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The House 'Round the CornerLouis Tracy5h 29m$2 · $0.00
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