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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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
2Detectives White & Furneaux’ Cases
3The Postmaster's Daughter
4CHAPTER I The Face at the Window
5CHAPTER II P. C. Robinson "Takes a Line"
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6CHAPTER III The Gathering Clouds
7CHAPTER IV A Cabal
8CHAPTER V The Seeds of Mischief
9CHAPTER VI Scotland Yard Takes a Hand
10CHAPTER VII "Alarums and Excursions
11CHAPTER VIII An Interrupted Symposium
12CHAPTER IX How Whom the Cap Fits—
13CHAPTER X The Case Against Grant
14CHAPTER XI P. C. Robinson Takes Another Line
15CHAPTER XII Wherein Winter Gets to Work
16CHAPTER XIII Concerning Theodore Siddle
17CHAPTER XIV On Both Sides of the River
18CHAPTER XV A Matter of Heredity
19CHAPTER XVI Furneaux Makes a Successful Bid
20CHAPTER XVII An Official Housebreaker
21CHAPTER XVIII The Truth at Last
22Number Seventeen
23CHAPTER I THE OUTCOME OF ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
24CHAPTER II THE COMPACT
25CHAPTER III IN THE TOILS
26CHAPTER IV A TELEPHONIC TALK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
27CHAPTER V A LEAP IN THE DARK
28CHAPTER VI CLOSE QUARTERS
29CHAPTER VII WHEREIN MR. FORBES EXPLAINS HIMSELF
30CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST COUNTER-STROKE
31CHAPTER IX SHARP WORK
32CHAPTER X CAPTURES ON BOTH SIDES
33CHAPTER XI THE REAPPEARANCE OF HANDYSIDE
34CHAPTER XII NO SURRENDER
35CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW MOVES IN THE GAME
36CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN THEYDON SUFFERS FROM FAINT HEART
37CHAPTER XV FORCEFUL TACTICS
38CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN UNEXPECTED ALLIES APPEAR
39CHAPTER XVII THE SETTLEMENT
40The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
41CHAPTER I The Water Nymphs
42CHAPTER II "Who Hath Done This Thing?"
43CHAPTER III THE HOUNDS
44CHAPTER IV Breaking Cover
45CHAPTER V A Family Gathering
46CHAPTER VI Wherein Furneaux Seeks Inspiration From Literature and Art
47CHAPTER VII Some Side Issues
48CHAPTER VIII Coincidences
49CHAPTER IX Wherein an Artist Becomes a Man of Action
50CHAPTER X Furneaux States Some Facts and Certain Fancies
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