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

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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. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.

Detective Mystery Crime Thriller Conspiracy Espionage Political Intrigue Psychological

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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (22)

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GenreMystery and Thriller

Length40 hrs 12 mins

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Publish dateJun 22, 2018

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

2Detectives White &amp; Furneaux’ Cases

3The Postmaster&#x27;s Daughter

4CHAPTER I The Face at the Window

5CHAPTER II P. C. Robinson &quot;Takes a Line&quot;

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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 &quot;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 &quot;Who Hath Done This Thing?&quot;

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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