The Best Louis Tracy Mysteries (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Edwardian Detective Tales of Disappearances, Intrigue, Forensic Reasoning, and Metropolitan AdventureBy Louis Tracy
Length114h 22m
About this audiobook
The Best Louis Tracy Mysteries gathers representative examples of Tracy's brisk, plot-driven crime fiction, where baffling disappearances, concealed identities, international intrigue, and legal or forensic reasoning converge. Written in a lucid Edwardian prose style, these mysteries combine the sensational inheritance of Wilkie Collins with the analytic habits popularized by Sherlock Holmes, while retaining Tracy's own taste for adventure, romance, and metropolitan atmosphere. The collection illuminates a transitional moment in detective fiction, before the formal "Golden Age," when narrative momentum and worldly conspiracy still stood beside deduction. Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was a British journalist and prolific popular novelist whose newspaper training sharpened his eye for pace, topicality, and public drama. His career in journalism, including experience with imperial and international affairs, helps explain the cosmopolitan settings, political undertones, and procedural confidence of his fiction. Writing also under pseudonyms such as Gordon Holmes, Tracy helped shape the commercial mystery novel for a wide reading public. This volume is recommended for readers interested in the foundations of modern crime fiction, especially those who enjoy intelligent puzzles enlivened by action and atmosphere. Scholars and enthusiasts alike will find in Tracy a rewarding bridge between Victorian sensation and twentieth-century detective storytelling.
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
Length114 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Best Louis Tracy Mysteries (Annotated)
2Detectives White & Furneaux Mysteries:
3The Postmaster's Daughter
4CHAPTER I The Face at the Window
5CHAPTER II P. C. Robinson "Takes a Line"
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6CHAPTER III The Gathering Clouds
7CHAPTER IV A Cabal
8CHAPTER V The Seeds of Mischief
9CHAPTER VI Scotland Yard Takes a Hand
10CHAPTER VII "Alarums and Excursions
11CHAPTER VIII An Interrupted Symposium
12CHAPTER IX How Whom the Cap Fits—
13CHAPTER X The Case Against Grant
14CHAPTER XI P. C. Robinson Takes Another Line
15CHAPTER XII Wherein Winter Gets to Work
16CHAPTER XIII Concerning Theodore Siddle
17CHAPTER XIV On Both Sides of the River
18CHAPTER XV A Matter of Heredity
19CHAPTER XVI Furneaux Makes a Successful Bid
20CHAPTER XVII An Official Housebreaker
21CHAPTER XVIII The Truth at Last
22Number Seventeen
23CHAPTER I THE OUTCOME OF ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
24CHAPTER II THE COMPACT
25CHAPTER III IN THE TOILS
26CHAPTER IV A TELEPHONIC TALK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
27CHAPTER V A LEAP IN THE DARK
28CHAPTER VI CLOSE QUARTERS
29CHAPTER VII WHEREIN MR. FORBES EXPLAINS HIMSELF
30CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST COUNTER-STROKE
31CHAPTER IX SHARP WORK
32CHAPTER X CAPTURES ON BOTH SIDES
33CHAPTER XI THE REAPPEARANCE OF HANDYSIDE
34CHAPTER XII NO SURRENDER
35CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW MOVES IN THE GAME
36CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN THEYDON SUFFERS FROM FAINT HEART
37CHAPTER XV FORCEFUL TACTICS
38CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN UNEXPECTED ALLIES APPEAR
39CHAPTER XVII THE SETTLEMENT
40The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
41CHAPTER I The Water Nymphs
42CHAPTER II "Who Hath Done This Thing?"
43CHAPTER III THE HOUNDS
44CHAPTER IV Breaking Cover
45CHAPTER V A Family Gathering
46CHAPTER VI Wherein Furneaux Seeks Inspiration From Literature and Art
47CHAPTER VII Some Side Issues
48CHAPTER VIII Coincidences
49CHAPTER IX Wherein an Artist Becomes a Man of Action
50CHAPTER X Furneaux States Some Facts and Certain Fancies
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$1.49 · $0.00
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The Wings of the MorningLouis Tracy8h 57m4.0 (142)$1 · $0.00
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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
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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
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Dark RisingJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 47m4.7 (1.3K)$27
Midnight ShadowsS.E. Smith5h 40m4.7 (2.5K)$17
CollateralBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson13h 8m4.6 (7K)$23
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
Animal 3K’wan6h 33m4.6 (2.8K)$20
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
Extinction WarNicholas Sansbury Smith12h 1m4.6 (6K)$23
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