Robbery Rhapsody: An Eight-Book Collection of Robbery Chronicles
Victorian Heists, Frontier Outlaws, Pinkerton Cases, and Classic Detective PuzzlesBy Jacques Futrelle, Anna Katharine Green, Rolf Boldrewood, William Ward, A. Frank Pinkerton, Allan Pinkerton, James H. Collins
Length58h 40m
About this audiobook
Robbery Rhapsody gathers eight narratives of theft, pursuit, deception, and detection into a compact survey of popular crime writing's many registers. Its contents move between sensation, detective puzzle, criminal chronicle, frontier adventure, and quasi-documentary account, revealing robbery not merely as a plot device but as a test of social order, professional expertise, and moral judgment. Tales of ingenious schemes, compromised identities, and painstaking investigations give the volume both suspenseful momentum and historical texture. The collection brings together writers associated with formative traditions in Anglo-American crime and adventure literature. Jacques Futrelle and Anna Katharine Green represent the elaboration of the detective story and its logic of clues; Rolf Boldrewood introduces a colonial and bushranging horizon; and Allan Pinkerton, alongside A. Frank Pinkerton, lends the anthology the authority and ambiguities of detective-agency narrative. William Ward and James H. Collins broaden this field through popular storytelling attuned to crime's public fascination. Collectively, these voices illuminate the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century development of crime as entertainment, reportage, and social commentary. Ideal for readers of classic mysteries, popular fiction, and the history of criminological imagination, this volume offers an unusual opportunity to compare divergent treatments of a single enduring subject. Its varied styles reward both leisurely reading and scholarly inquiry, fostering a lively dialogue between detection, adventure, and criminal testimony.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length58 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Trial of Deacon Brodie
26Chapter 33
2INTRODUCTION. (pt. 1)
27Chapter 36
3INTRODUCTION. (pt. 2)
28Chapter 38
4THE TRIAL (pt. 1)
29Chapter 41
5THE TRIAL (pt. 2)
30Chapter 43
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6THE TRIAL (pt. 3)
31Chapter 46
7The Trial. Second Day—Thursday, 28th August, 1788.
32Chapter 49
8APPENDIX II.
33Chapter 51
9APPENDIX III.
34The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives
10APPENDIX IX.
35PREFACE.
11APPENDIX XIV.
36CHAPTER IV.
12Robbery under Arms
37CHAPTER VIII.
13Robbery under Arms
38CHAPTER XII.
14Chapter 1
39CHAPTER XVI.
15Chapter 3
40CHAPTER XIX.
16Chapter 6
41CHAPTER XXIII.
17Chapter 9
42The Chase of the Golden Plate
18Chapter 12
43PART I THE BURGLAR AND THE GIRL
19Chapter 14
44CHAPTER VIII
20Chapter 17
45CHAPTER V
21Chapter 19
46CHAPTER II
22Chapter 22
47Three Thousand Dollars
23Chapter 25
48CHAPTER II
24Chapter 27
49CHAPTER XI
25Chapter 30
50CHAPTER XX
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