THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories
Sixty Classic Tales of Detection, Gothic Terror, and Supernatural SuspenseBy Edgar Allan Poe, A. Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Villiers Adam, C. Moffett, F. Marryat, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, Théopile Gautier, L. Hearn, C. B. Fernando, Brander Matthews, R. L. Stevenson, W. F. Harvey, Anna Katherine Green, Anton Chekhov, T. W. Hanshew, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Sir R. Anderson, R. A. Cram, Pliny the Younger, Joseph L. French, Ambrose Bierce, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Helena Blavatsky, Thomas Hardy
Length48h 42m
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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES gathers more than sixty detective and mystery tales into a capacious survey of the genre's evolution. Gothic terror, rational detection, supernatural uncertainty, sensation fiction, psychological suspense, and mordant satire coexist here, demonstrating how mystery repeatedly tests the boundary between explanation and the uncanny. Tales of locked rooms, vanished persons, inherited secrets, spectral visitations, and criminal ingenuity reveal the form's remarkable range, from compact puzzles to atmospherically elaborate narratives. Its contributors form an international and historically expansive assembly, joining American, British, French, Russian, Irish, and classical voices. The volume places nineteenth-century Gothic and Romantic traditions in dialogue with the rise of the modern detective story, while also tracing the influence of realism, decadence, imperial adventure, and the ghost-story revival. Figures associated with foundational detective fiction, supernatural literature, and literary modernity collectively show that mystery is not a narrow formula but a flexible cultural language for confronting evidence, fear, social concealment, and moral ambiguity. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective. It offers an accessible education in the mystery tale's many lineages, inviting comparison among radically different narrative methods and imaginative worlds. By bringing diverse traditions into one volume, it fosters a rich dialogue between deduction and doubt, realism and fantasy, crime and the inexplicable.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length48 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateJun 27, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD’S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Series)
2The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy (Annotated)
3Detective Stories
4The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
5A Scandal in Bohemia (A. Conan Doyle)
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6I
7II
8III
9The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins)
10The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov)
11The Black Hand (Arthur B. Reeve)
12Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katherine Green)
13I
14II
15III
16IV
17V
18VI
19VII
20Some Scotland Yard Cases (Sir Robert Anderson)
21The Rope of Fear (Thomas W. Hanshew and Mary E. Hanshew)
22Suspense Stories
23The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
24The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe)
25A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)
26The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam)
27The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett)
28The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
29My Fascinating Friend (William Archer)
30I
31II
32III
33IV
34The Lost Room (Fitz-James O'Brien)
35The Great Valdez Sapphire (Anonymous)
36Ghost Stories
37Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson)
38The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)
39To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger)
40The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey)
41I
42II
43III
44IV
45Number 13 (Montague Rhodes James)
46Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
47Sister Maddelena (Ralph Adams Cram)
48The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson)
49The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling)
50The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)
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