Midnight
An Early American Mystery of Concealed Motives, Social Deception, and Crime Beneath Respectable SurfacesBy Octavus Roy Cohen
Length6h 2m
About this audiobook
Octavus Roy Cohen's Midnight is a tightly constructed mystery novel shaped by the conventions of early twentieth-century popular detective fiction: nocturnal secrecy, concealed motives, misleading appearances, and the gradual conversion of suspicion into evidence. Its atmosphere is as important as its puzzle, with darkness functioning not merely as setting but as a metaphor for the social and psychological uncertainties surrounding the crime. Cohen's prose is direct, brisk, and dramatically visual, combining the readability of magazine fiction with a careful interest in interrogation, detection, and the revelation of character. The novel thus belongs to the transitional period when American crime writing was moving from the genteel riddle toward a more energetic, modern narrative of suspense. Cohen, a prolific American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, brought to his fiction a reporter's eye for circumstance and a dramatist's sense of pacing. His extensive work in popular literature—and his engagement with the developing culture of newspapers, pulp magazines, and cinema—helped him create stories in which plot unfolds through sharply observed scenes and memorable personalities. Midnight reflects this professional versatility: it is designed to entertain, but also to examine how fear, reputation, and incomplete knowledge shape human judgment. Recommended for readers interested in the history of American mystery fiction, Midnight offers both an absorbing investigation and a revealing document of its literary moment. It will especially reward readers attentive to atmosphere, narrative mechanics, and the cultural foundations of modern suspense.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (433)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1When The Sleeper Wakes - A Dystopian Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition) (Annotated)
2Chapter I. Out of the Storm
3Chapter II. The Suit-Case Is Opened
4Chapter III. "Find the Woman"
5Chapter IV. Carroll Has a Visitor
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6Chapter V. Miss Evelyn Rogers
7Chapter VI. Regarding Roland Warren
8Chapter VII. The Valet Talks
9Chapter VIII. Carroll Makes a Move
10Chapter IX. Ice Cream Soda
11Chapter X. A Discovery
12Chapter XI. Loose Ends
13Chapter XII. A Challenge
14Chapter XIII. No Alibi
15Chapter XIV. The Suit-Case Again
16Chapter XV. A Talk With Hazel Gresham
17Chapter XVI. The Woman in the Taxi
18Chapter XVII. Barker Accuses
19Chapter XVIII. "And Nothing but the Truth—"
20Chapter XIX. Labyrinth
21Chapter XX. A Confession
22Chapter XXI. Carroll Decides
23Chapter XXII. The Problem Is Solved
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