Murder for Christmas Eve
Victorian and Edwardian Holiday Crimes, Ghost Stories, Gothic Suspense, and Classic Detective PuzzlesBy Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Leonard Kip, Lucie E. Jackson, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Length54h 59m
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Murder for Christmas Eve gathers Victorian, Edwardian, and early modern crime writing around the ironic proximity of festivity and menace. Its range extends from detective puzzles and sensation fiction to ghostly unease, comic reversals, moral parables, and tales of domestic secrecy. Christmas settings—houses crowded with guests, snowbound roads, inherited rituals, and shadowed hearths—become instruments of suspense rather than reassurance. Standout effects include ingenious investigations, uncanny visitations, and sharply contrived revelations that test the boundary between holiday sentiment and violence. The volume brings together major practitioners of the detective story, Gothic tale, sensation novel, comic sketch, and popular magazine fiction: Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon appear alongside writers such as Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Louisa May Alcott, and O. Henry. Collectively, these voices illuminate the rise of modern crime fiction from Victorian sensation, Gothic romance, imperial adventure, and the periodical culture that cultivated concise, surprising narratives. Their differing national, social, and tonal perspectives enrich Christmas as a literary site of both community and concealment. Ideal for students and general readers alike, Murder for Christmas Eve offers an unusually capacious introduction to seasonal crime and its literary ancestors. Readers will find intellectual pleasure in comparing methods of detection, registers of fear, and competing visions of justice across a single, richly varied volume. Its dialogue among mystery, humor, and the supernatural makes it both instructive and deeply enjoyable.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length54 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (Annotated)
2Murder for Christmas Eve
3Murder & Crime Mysteries
4The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
5The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
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6Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
7A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
8McAllister's Christmas (Arthur Cheney Train)
9I
10II
11III
12IV
13V
14VI
15The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
16A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
17Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
18Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins)
19I
20II
21III
22IV
23V
24VI
25VII
26VIII
27IX
28X
29The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
30An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
31A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
32A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
33The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
34Supernatural Mysteries
35The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
36What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
37First Night
38Second Night
39Third Night
40Fourth Night
41Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
42The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
43Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
44I
45II
46III
47IV
48The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
49Letter I
50Letter II
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