Mysteries for Christmas: 48 Puzzling Murder Mysteries & Supernatural Thrillers
Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Locked-Room Murders, and Gothic ThrillersBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Saki, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Emmuska Orczy, Louisa M. Alcott, M.R. James, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, Lucie E. Jackson, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, James Bowker, Grant Allen, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson
Length55h 1m
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Mysteries for Christmas gathers forty-eight murder puzzles and supernatural thrillers into a seasonally charged panorama of Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction. Its selection moves from rational detection and locked-room ingenuity to ghostly visitation, criminal conspiracy, domestic menace, and ironic comedy. Wintry settings, holiday gatherings, inherited secrets, and nocturnal unease lend the volume a distinctive atmosphere in which Christmas hospitality becomes a testing ground for suspicion. Particularly memorable are the tales that let festive warmth coexist with spectral dread or transform seemingly ordinary social rituals into elaborate puzzles. The contributors represent an unusually broad constellation of British and American writers who shaped detective fiction, sensation narrative, Gothic romance, humorous fiction, and the literary ghost story. Their combined careers span the nineteenth-century sensation boom, the rise of professionalized detective methods, and the Edwardian revival of antiquarian and psychological terror. Canonical figures appear alongside prolific popular storytellers and important women writers, whose domestic, colonial, and social perspectives complicate the genre's familiar assumptions. Together, these voices reveal mystery writing as a flexible form responsive to class, gender, modernity, folklore, and anxieties surrounding the home. This volume is warmly recommended to readers seeking both seasonal entertainment and a compact education in the development of crime and supernatural literature. Its variety invites comparison across styles and periods, while the juxtaposition of puzzles, hauntings, and social satire creates a lively dialogue among distinct narrative traditions. It is an especially rewarding anthology for students, scholars, and curious general readers.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length55 hrs 1 min
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 17, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MURDER MYSTERY Boxed Set: 14 Books Collection (Annotated)
2Mysteries for Christmas: 48 Puzzling Murder Mysteries & Supernatural Thrillers
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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