The Albert Gate Mystery & The Stowmarket Mystery (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective (Two Books in One Edition)By Louis Tracy
Length17h 7m
About this audiobook
The Albert Gate Mystery & The Stowmarket Mystery gathers two brisk Edwardian detective narratives in which Louis Tracy refines the post-Holmesian puzzle tale into a form at once urbane, melodramatic, and cosmopolitan. Centered on crimes that radiate outward from domestic spaces into networks of inheritance, secrecy, politics, and social reputation, the stories combine clue-driven investigation with the sensational momentum of the popular thriller. Tracy's prose is lucid, journalistic, and theatrical, placing him within the transitional moment between Victorian sensation fiction and the more formal detective fiction of the Golden Age. Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was a British journalist and prolific novelist whose professional life in newspapers deeply shaped his fiction. His familiarity with public scandal, international affairs, legal procedure, and the appetite of a mass reading public gave his mysteries their distinctive mixture of topical immediacy and narrative efficiency. Writing under his own name and pseudonyms, Tracy helped sustain the early twentieth-century market for intelligent popular fiction. This volume is recommended for readers interested in the evolution of detective fiction before Christie and Sayers, as well as those who enjoy elegant sleuthing, swift plotting, and a richly Edwardian atmosphere. It offers both entertainment and literary-historical value.
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
Length17 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1British Murder Mysteries - The Louis Tracy Edition (Annotated)
2The Albert Gate Mystery (pt. 1)
3The Albert Gate Mystery (pt. 2)
4The Albert Gate Mystery (pt. 3)
5The Albert Gate Mystery (pt. 4)
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6The Stowmarket Mystery (pt. 1)
7The Stowmarket Mystery (pt. 2)
8The Stowmarket Mystery (pt. 3)
9The Stowmarket Mystery (pt. 4)
10Memorable Quotes
The Mystery Fiction Vault: 75 BooksLouis Tracy, F. Marion Crawford, E. W. Hornung, John Ironside, Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain, S. R. Crockett, Wyndham Martyn, Roi Cooper Megrue, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Emile Gaboriau, James French Dorrance, E. S. Dorrance, Wilkie Collins, Edwin Balmer, William MacHarg, Cornelia Meigs, George Barr McCutcheon, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Absalom Martin, Edgar Pangborn, Bannister Merwin, Marjorie Douie, William Le Queux, Valentine Williams, Oliver Fleming, Albert M. Treynor, Tom Gallon, John R. Carling, Nicholas Carter, John R. Watson, Arthur J. Rees, Fred M. White, Ethel Cook Eliot, Burt L. Standish, A. H. Vesey, John T. McIntyre, Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller, Agatha Christie, Katharine Newlin Burt, Mildred A. Wirt, Frederick Gordon, Howard Roger Garis, Richard Marsh, Angela Brazil, Amy Bell Marlowe, Van Powell, Edward Stratemeyer, George Barton, Margaret Penrose, Helen M. Persons, Ross Kay, Grace May North, E. J. Craine, Andy Adams, James A. Braden, Don Palmer, Elbert M. Hoppenstedt, Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Helen Randolph, Roy J. Snell, Archibald Lee Fletcher, Augusta Huiell Seaman506h 52m$2.99 · $0.00
The Best Louis Tracy Mysteries (Annotated)Louis Tracy114h 22m$2 · $0.00
The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy (Annotated)Louis Tracy114h 20m$2 · $0.00
Detectives White & Furneaux' Cases (Annotated)Louis Tracy40h 13m3.9 (22)$2 · $0.00
The Great MogulLouis Tracy6h 54m3.5 (15)$2 · $0.00
The Wings of the MorningLouis Tracy8h 57m4.0 (142)$1 · $0.00
The Best Louis Tracy MysteriesLouis Tracy114h 38m$1 · $0.00
The King of Diamonds: A Tale of Mystery and AdventureLouis Tracy9h 7m4.2 (96)$1 · $0.00
His Unknown WifeLouis Tracy8h 9m$1 · $0.00
The Wheel O' FortuneLouis Tracy7h 33m3.9 (39)$2 · $0.00
Detectives White & Furneaux' CasesLouis Tracy40h 6m3.9 (22)$1 · $0.00
The Strange Case of Mortimer FenleyLouis Tracy5h 33m3.7 (114)$2 · $0.00
The House 'Round the CornerLouis Tracy5h 29m4.1 (72)$2 · $0.00
British Murder Mysteries - The Louis Tracy EditionLouis Tracy114h 44m$1 · $0.00
The Terms of SurrenderLouis Tracy7h 35m$1 · $0.00
White & Furneaux: Detective MysteriesLouis Tracy40h 4m4.1 (33)$1 · $0.00
BRITISH MYSTERIES Boxed Set: 14 Thriller & Detective NovelsLouis Tracy114h 44m3.6 (12)$2 · $0.00
The Wheel O' FortuneLouis Tracy7h 33m3.8 (23)$2 · $0.00
El misterio de Albert GateLouis Tracy17h 36m3.7 (122)$1 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
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Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
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