Golden Age Murder Mysteries - Complete Inspector Furnival & Inspector Stoddart Series (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Annie Haynes Edition: Abbey Court Murder, House in Charlton Crescent, Crow Inn's TragedyBy Annie Haynes
Length53h 23m
About this audiobook
Gathering the complete Inspector Furnival and Inspector Stoddart novels, this volume restores Annie Haynes to her rightful place among the architects of the Golden Age detective story. Her mysteries combine intricate clue-plotting with a distinctly Edwardian residue of sensation fiction: family secrets, contested inheritances, ominous houses, and reputations endangered by scandal. Haynes's prose is lucid, economical, and quietly atmospheric, favoring social observation and moral ambiguity over flamboyant theatrics, while her detectives impose rational order upon worlds unsettled by class anxiety and hidden desire. Haynes was a British crime writer whose brief but productive career unfolded in the 1920s, alongside the emergence of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other defining figures of the genre. Writing despite chronic ill health and beginning relatively late, she drew upon the domestic interiors, provincial networks, and gendered constraints familiar to women of her generation. These pressures inform her fiction's fascination with secrecy, vulnerability, and the precariousness of respectability. This collection is recommended for readers who want more than a puzzle: it offers historically rich, elegantly constructed detective fiction from a writer too often overshadowed by her contemporaries. Admirers of classic British mysteries will find in Furnival and Stoddart both intellectual satisfaction and a revealing portrait of interwar society.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (22)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length53 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Golden Age Murder Mysteries - Complete Inspector Furnival & Inspector Stoddart Series (Annotated)
26Chapter XXIII
2Inspector Furnival Series
27Chapter XXIV
3The Abbey Court Murder (1923)
28Chapter XXV
4Chapter I
29Chapter XXVI
5Chapter II
30Chapter XXVII
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6Chapter III
31Chapter XXVIII
7Chapter IV
32Chapter XXIX
8Chapter V
33Chapter XXX
9Chapter VI
34Chapter XXXI
10Chapter VII
35Chapter XXXII
11Chapter VIII
36The House in Charlton Crescent (1926)
12Chapter IX
37Chapter I
13Chapter X
38Chapter II
14Chapter XI
39Chapter III
15Chapter XII
40Chapter IV
16Chapter XIII
41Chapter V
17Chapter XIV
42Chapter VI
18Chapter XV
43Chapter VII
19Chapter XVI
44Chapter VIII
20Chapter XVII
45Chapter IX
21Chapter XVIII
46Chapter X
22Chapter XIX
47Chapter XI
23Chapter XX
48Chapter XII
24Chapter XXI
49Chapter XIII
25Chapter XXII
50Chapter XIV
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