MURDER MYSTERIES Boxed Set: Premium Arthur J. Rees Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Hampstead Mystery, The Mystery of the Downs, The Shrieking Pit, The Hand in the Dark, & The Moon RockBy Arthur J. Rees
Length55h 33m
About this audiobook
MURDER MYSTERIES Boxed Set: Premium Arthur J. Rees Collection gathers a substantial body of early twentieth-century detective fiction in which country-house secrets, coastal landscapes, forged identities, and psychological pressure converge. Rees writes in the transitional moment between Victorian sensation fiction and the Golden Age puzzle mystery: his plots are intricate, clue-driven, and atmospheric, yet often darkened by gothic settings and an interest in motive, heredity, and social concealment. The collection displays his command of suspense, procedural inquiry, and the slow revelation of buried guilt. Arthur J. Rees was an Australian-born journalist and novelist whose career in Britain gave him both a reporter's eye for factual detail and an outsider's sensitivity to English class structures and provincial life. His journalistic discipline informs the clarity of his investigations, while his colonial background perhaps sharpened his fascination with displacement, inheritance, and respectability under strain. Writing alongside and just before the great interwar detective boom, Rees helped shape the genre's modern expectations. This collection is recommended for readers who enjoy classic mystery fiction with intellectual puzzles and brooding atmosphere. Admirers of Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, and early Agatha Christie will find in Rees a distinctive, unjustly neglected craftsman of crime.
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★★★ 3.3 (12)
Includes Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length55 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 12, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
14The Shrieking Pit (pt. 4)
2The Hampstead Mystery (pt. 1)
15The Shrieking Pit (pt. 5)
3The Hampstead Mystery (pt. 2)
16The Hand in the Dark (pt. 1)
4The Hampstead Mystery (pt. 3)
17The Hand in the Dark (pt. 2)
5The Hampstead Mystery (pt. 4)
18The Hand in the Dark (pt. 3)
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6The Hampstead Mystery (pt. 5)
19The Hand in the Dark (pt. 4)
7The Mystery of the Downs (pt. 1)
20The Hand in the Dark (pt. 5)
8The Mystery of the Downs (pt. 2)
21The Moon Rock (pt. 1)
9The Mystery of the Downs (pt. 3)
22The Moon Rock (pt. 2)
10The Mystery of the Downs (pt. 4)
23The Moon Rock (pt. 3)
11The Shrieking Pit (pt. 1)
24The Moon Rock (pt. 4)
12The Shrieking Pit (pt. 2)
25The Moon Rock (pt. 5)
13The Shrieking Pit (pt. 3)
26Memorable Quotes
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