MYSTERY & DETECTIVE COLLECTION: The Winning Clue, Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, No Clue & The Man Who Forgot (Thriller Classics Series)
Clues, Secrets & Lost MemoryBy James Hay
Length28h 55m
About this audiobook
James Hay's MYSTERY & DETECTIVE COLLECTION gathers four compact exercises in suspense: The Winning Clue, Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, No Clue, and The Man Who Forgot. Together, they display the central attractions of classic detective fiction—concealed motives, uncertain testimony, reversals of judgment, and the gradual conversion of apparently insignificant details into decisive evidence. Hay moves between the fair-play puzzle and the thriller, combining investigative procedure with domestic jeopardy and psychological uncertainty. The collection is especially valuable as a representative work of the popular mystery tradition, in which plot ingenuity, atmosphere, and the testing of perception matter as much as the final solution. Although James Hay is less widely discussed than the canonical figures of detective literature, these stories suggest a writer deeply attentive to the genre's developing conventions. His recurring interest in mistaken identity, compromised memory, endangered respectability, and clues that acquire meaning only retrospectively indicates an author responding to an era fascinated by crime, rational inquiry, and the instability of appearances. Hay's fiction belongs to the broad culture of early modern thriller writing, where brisk narration and dramatic disclosure made complex puzzles accessible to a wide readership. This collection will reward readers who enjoy vintage mysteries, ingenious plotting, and the literary history of popular crime fiction. It offers both the immediate pleasure of suspense and an illuminating glimpse into how detective narratives organize doubt, evidence, and revelation. Readers of classic whodunits and atmospheric thrillers will find these four works an engaging introduction to Hay's imaginative range.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length28 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 17, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wyllard's Weird (Annotated)
2THE WINNING CLUE
3I. Strangled
4II. “Something Big in It”
5III. The Ruby Ring
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6IV. Two Trails
7V. The Husband’s Story
8VI. Morley Is in a Hurry
9VII. Miss Fulton Is Hysterical
10VIII. The Breath of Scandal
11IX. Women’s Nerves
12X. Eyes of Accusation
13XI. The $1,000 Check
14XII. The Man With the Gold Tooth
15XIII. Lucy Thomas Talks
16XIV. The Pawn Broker Takes the Trail
17XV. Braceway Sees a Light
18XVI. A Message From Miss Fulton
19XVII. Miss Fulton’s Revelation
20XVIII. What’s Braceway’s Game?
21XIX. At the Anderson National Bank
22XX. The Discovery of the Jewels
23XXI. Bristow Solves a Problem
24XXII. A Confession
25XXIII. On the Rack
26XXIV. Miss Fulton Writes a Letter
27XXV. A Mystifying Telegram
28XXVI. Wanted: Vengeance
29XXVII. The Revelation
30XXVIII. Confession Voluntary
31XXIX. The Last Card
32NO CLUE!
33I. The Grey Envelope
34II. The Woman on the Lawn
35III. The Unexpected Witness
36IV. Hastings Is Retained
37V. The Interview With Mrs. Brace
38VI. Action by the Sheriff
39VII. The Hostility of Mr. Sloane
40VIII. The Man Who Ran Away
41IX. The Breaking Down of Webster
42X. The Whispered Conference
43XI. Motives Revealed
44XII. Hendricks Reports
45XIII. Mrs. Brace Begins
46XIV. Mr. Crown Forms an Alliance
47XV. In Arthur Sloane’s Room
48XVI. The Bribe
49XVII. “The Whole Truth”
50XVIII. The Man Who Rode Away
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