THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 270+ Thriller Classics & Murder Mysteries (Illustrated Edition)
270+ Victorian and Edwardian Crime ClassicsBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr
Length672h 41m
About this audiobook
The Great British Detectives gathers more than 270 thrillers and murder mysteries into a capacious survey of detective fiction's formative popular traditions. Ranging from clue-driven puzzles and locked-room enigmas to urban crime tales, espionage-inflected adventures, and comic or philosophical investigations, the collection reveals the genre's unusual stylistic breadth. Illustrated presentation complements narratives marked by ingenious deductions, hidden identities, professional criminals, and the recurring contest between rational inquiry and social disorder. Among its many attractions are investigations that move from domestic unease to international intrigue, demonstrating how detective writing could be both escapist entertainment and a sensitive register of modern anxieties. Its contributors represent a remarkable cross-section of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century British crime writing. They include creators associated with the gentleman detective, the medical or scientific investigator, the sensational thriller, and the journalistic mystery, alongside writers whose work brought satire, regional atmosphere, and adventure fiction into dialogue with detection. Collectively, these voices illuminate the rise of mass-market periodical culture and the consolidation of the Golden Age mystery, while retaining links to Victorian sensation fiction and imperial romance. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking an expansive encounter with British detective literature in a single edition. Its multiplicity of forms and settings invites comparison across authors, methods, and moral assumptions, making it valuable both for casual mystery enthusiasts and students of genre history. Readers will find not merely a treasury of suspense, but a sustained conversation about evidence, justice, class, and the pleasures of interpretation.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length672 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 19, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BRITISH MYSTERIES Boxed Set: 70+ Spy Thrillers & Detective Stories (Annotated)
2THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 270+ Thriller Classics & Murder Mysteries (Illustrated Edition)
3Sherlock Holmes
4A Study in Scarlet
5Part I. Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
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6I. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
7II. The Science of Deduction
8III. The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
9IV. What John Rance had to Tell
10V. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
11VI. Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do
12VII. Light in the Darkness
13Part II. The Country of the Saints
14I. On the Great Alkali Plain
15II. The Flower of Utah
16III. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet
17IV. A Flight for Life
18V. The Avenging Angels
19VI. A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.
20VII. The Conclusion
21The Sign of Four
22Chapter I. The Science of Deduction
23Chapter II. The Statement of the Case
24Chapter III. In Quest of a Solution
25Chapter IV. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
26Chapter V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
27Chapter VI. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
28Chapter VII. The Episode of the Barrel
29Chapter VIII. The Baker Street Irregulars
30Chapter IX. A Break in the Chain
31Chapter X. The End of the Islander
32Chapter XI. The Great Agra Treasure
33Chapter XII. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
34The Hound of the Baskervilles
35I. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
36II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
37III. The Problem
38IV. Sir Henry Baskerville
39V. Three Broken Threads
40VI. Baskerville Hall
41VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
42VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
43IX. The Light Upon the Moor
44X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
45XI. The Man on the Tor
46XII. Death on the Moor
47XIII. Fixing The Nets
48XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
49XV. A Retrospection
50The Valley of Fear
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