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)
26CHAPTER IV A TELEPHONIC TALK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
2Detectives White & Furneaux Mysteries:
27CHAPTER V A LEAP IN THE DARK
3The Postmaster's Daughter
28CHAPTER VI CLOSE QUARTERS
4CHAPTER I The Face at the Window
29CHAPTER VII WHEREIN MR. FORBES EXPLAINS HIMSELF
5CHAPTER II P. C. Robinson "Takes a Line"
30CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST COUNTER-STROKE
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6CHAPTER III The Gathering Clouds
31CHAPTER IX SHARP WORK
7CHAPTER IV A Cabal
32CHAPTER X CAPTURES ON BOTH SIDES
8CHAPTER V The Seeds of Mischief
33CHAPTER XI THE REAPPEARANCE OF HANDYSIDE
9CHAPTER VI Scotland Yard Takes a Hand
34CHAPTER XII NO SURRENDER
10CHAPTER VII "Alarums and Excursions
35CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW MOVES IN THE GAME
11CHAPTER VIII An Interrupted Symposium
36CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN THEYDON SUFFERS FROM FAINT HEART
12CHAPTER IX How Whom the Cap Fits—
37CHAPTER XV FORCEFUL TACTICS
13CHAPTER X The Case Against Grant
38CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN UNEXPECTED ALLIES APPEAR
14CHAPTER XI P. C. Robinson Takes Another Line
39CHAPTER XVII THE SETTLEMENT
15CHAPTER XII Wherein Winter Gets to Work
40The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
16CHAPTER XIII Concerning Theodore Siddle
41CHAPTER I The Water Nymphs
17CHAPTER XIV On Both Sides of the River
42CHAPTER II "Who Hath Done This Thing?"
18CHAPTER XV A Matter of Heredity
43CHAPTER III THE HOUNDS
19CHAPTER XVI Furneaux Makes a Successful Bid
44CHAPTER IV Breaking Cover
20CHAPTER XVII An Official Housebreaker
45CHAPTER V A Family Gathering
21CHAPTER XVIII The Truth at Last
46CHAPTER VI Wherein Furneaux Seeks Inspiration From Literature and Art
22Number Seventeen
47CHAPTER VII Some Side Issues
23CHAPTER I THE OUTCOME OF ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
48CHAPTER VIII Coincidences
24CHAPTER II THE COMPACT
49CHAPTER IX Wherein an Artist Becomes a Man of Action
25CHAPTER III IN THE TOILS
50CHAPTER X Furneaux States Some Facts and Certain Fancies
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