SUMMERTIME MADNESS – Murder Mysteries to Keep You Relaxed
Classic Locked-Room Puzzles, Gothic Murders, Gentleman Thieves, and Golden Age DetectionBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, 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, A. E. W. Mason, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Length346h 42m
About this audiobook
SUMMERTIME MADNESS – Murder Mysteries to Keep You Relaxed gathers the many pleasures of classic crime fiction beneath an invitingly ironic seasonal title. Its murders, thefts, disappearances, and ingenious deductions move from Gothic unease and sensation fiction to the clipped puzzle, comic caper, locked-room enigma, and early hard-edged adventure tale. Memorable investigations, gentleman thieves, eccentric sleuths, and domestic secrets demonstrate how mystery converts social disorder into narrative suspense—and, often, satisfying resolution. The contributors represent a transatlantic and European genealogy of detective writing, including foundational Victorian storytellers, architects of the Golden Age puzzle, and innovators in crime's comic, psychological, and procedural possibilities. Their varied careers connect the anthology to the rise of the modern detective, the sensation novel, popular magazine culture, and the international circulation of crime narratives. Together, these voices reveal that the genre has never been merely formulaic: it is a flexible literary mode for examining class, gender, urban modernity, imperial networks, and the deceptive surfaces of ordinary life. Ideal for devoted mystery readers, students of popular literature, and newcomers alike, this volume offers a richly varied introduction to the genre's formative traditions. Read consecutively or sampled at leisure, its stories invite comparison across methods, moods, and moral visions. SUMMERTIME MADNESS provides both relaxed entertainment and an illuminating dialogue among the many forms crime fiction can take.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length346 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 16, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1British Murder Mysteries: 350+ Detective Novels & True Crime Stories in One Volume
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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