Spy Thrillers & Detective Novels: The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights & The Brute (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Espionage Thrillers & International Crime MysteriesBy Frederic Arnold Kummer
Length37h 18m
About this audiobook
Gathering The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights, and The Brute, this volume presents Frederic Arnold Kummer's vigorous contributions to early twentieth-century popular fiction. These narratives move between espionage, detection, exotic intrigue, and urban menace, employing rapid plotting, theatrical reversals, and sharply staged scenes. Their style belongs to the age of magazine serials and silent cinema: suspense is visual, clues are dramatic, and moral conflict is rendered through action. Kummer was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose career stood at the intersection of print, stage, and film. His familiarity with dramatic construction helps explain the brisk momentum and strongly defined situations of these stories. Writing in a period marked by wartime anxieties, technological change, and a growing appetite for professional detectives and international conspiracies, he transformed contemporary fears into accessible, energetic entertainment. Readers interested in the genealogy of spy fiction and detective narrative will find this collection both pleasurable and instructive. It is especially recommended to admirers of classic mysteries, pulp adventure, and fiction that reveals how popular literature shaped modern suspense long before the genre's later hard-boiled and cinematic refinements.
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
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length37 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 3, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Spy Thrillers & Detective Novels: The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights & The Brute (Annotated)
26Part 2
2Spy Thrillers & Detective Novels: The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights & The Brute
27Chapter 1
3The Green God
28Chapter 2
4Chapter 1 MR. ASHTON
29Chapter 3
5Chapter 2 A CRY IN THE MORNING
30Chapter 4
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6Chapter 3 A QUEER DISCOVERY
31Chapter 5
7Chapter 4 I ADVISE MISS TEMPLE
32Part 3
8Chapter 5 MAJOR TEMPLE'S STORY
33Chapter 1
9Chapter 6 THE ORIENTAL PERFUME
34Chapter 2
10Chapter 7 IN THE TEMPLE OF BUDDHA
35Chapter 3
11Chapter 8 INSPECTOR BURNS' CONCLUSIONS
36Chapter 4
12Chapter 9 MISS TEMPLE'S DISAPPEARANCE
37Chapter 5
13Chapter 10 MISS TEMPLE'S TESTIMONY
38Part 4
14Chapter 11 THE VENGEANCE OF BUDDHA
39Chapter 1
15Chapter 12 I ASK MISS TEMPLE A QUESTION
40Chapter 2
16Chapter 13 A NIGHT OF HORROR
41Chapter 3
17Chapter 14 THE SECRET OF THE GREEN ROOM
42Chapter 4
18The Film of Fear
43Chapter 5
19Part 1
44The Ivory Snuff Box
20Chapter 1
45Chapter 1
21Chapter 2
46Chapter 2
22Chapter 3
47Chapter 3
23Chapter 4
48Chapter 4
24Chapter 5
49Chapter 5
25Chapter 6
50Chapter 6
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