Murder Under The Mistletoe - Ultimate Christmas Murder Mystery Collection
Classic Holiday Crimes, Snowbound Sleuths, Cryptic Clues, and Gothic SuspenseBy Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch, Anna Katharine Green, G. K. Chesterton, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, R. Austin Freeman, Grace Livingston Hill, A. E. W. Mason, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mabel Thorne, Paul Thorne
Length383h 15m
About this audiobook
Murder Under The Mistletoe gathers Christmas-season mysteries in which domestic warmth, ritual festivity, and winter seclusion become instruments of suspense. Its selection ranges from detective puzzles and locked-room enigmas to comic crime, sensation narrative, and psychologically alert tales of deception. Yuletide settings—houses bright with holly, crowded gatherings, railway journeys, and snowbound streets—sharpen the genre's enduring contrast between communal celebration and concealed violence. The volume's standout appeal lies in this formal variety: clues, atmospheres, reversals, and moral ambiguities emerge through markedly different narrative temperaments. The contributors represent a broad Anglo-American and European tradition of popular crime writing, spanning the late Victorian sensation novel, the Sherlockian detective inheritance, early twentieth-century puzzle fiction, and the modern Golden Age mystery. Together, these novelists and storytellers reveal how detective fiction absorbed influences from Gothic romance, journalism, melodrama, social comedy, and adventure writing. Their differing national settings, investigative methods, and portrayals of class and family make Christmas not merely a backdrop but a cultural lens through which secrecy, obligation, and justice are tested. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking both seasonal entertainment and a compact history of crime fiction's evolving forms. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative strategies across generations while appreciating the pleasures of the clue, the shock, and the final disclosure. Read as a dialogue among varied voices, it rewards students, mystery enthusiasts, and holiday readers alike.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (10)
Includes Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length383 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Murder Mysteries to Solve on Christmas Eve (Annotated)
2Edgar Allan Poe
3The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4The Mystery of Marie Roget
5The Purloined Letter
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6Agatha Christie
7The Mysterious Affair at Styles
8Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
9Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
10Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
11Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
12Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
13Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
14Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
15Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
16Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
17Chapter 10 THE ARREST
18Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
19Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
20Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
21The Murder on the Links
229. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2318. Giraud Acts
2428. Journey’s End
25The Kidnapped Prime Minister
26The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
27The Secret Adversary
28Prologue
29Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
30Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
31Chapter 3 A Set Back
32Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
33Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
34Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
35Chapter 7 The House in Soho
36Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
37Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
38Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
39Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
40Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
41Chapter 13 The Vigil
42Chapter 14 A Consultation
43Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
44Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
45Chapter 17 Annette
46Chapter 18 The Telegram
47Chapter 19 Jane Finn
48Chapter 20 Too Late
49Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
50Chapter 22 In Downing Street
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