The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers
Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Tales of Murder, Ghosts, Family Secrets, and Winter SuspenseBy Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford
Length55h 32m
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The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers gathers Victorian, Edwardian, and early modern short fiction in which the season of hospitality, ritual, and domestic intimacy becomes a setting for dread, detection, and surprise. Its range encompasses locked-room puzzles, supernatural visitations, sensation fiction, comic reversals, psychological suspense, and tales of crime concealed beneath snowbound respectability. Alongside classical investigations and uncanny Christmas hauntings, the volume foregrounds the genre's pleasure in contrast: hearth and menace, charity and greed, festive reunion and fatal secrecy. The collection draws together major architects of English-language popular fiction with less frequently encountered voices whose work enlarged the possibilities of mystery and terror. These contributors participated in overlapping traditions of the Gothic revival, the Victorian sensation novel, imperial and transatlantic adventure writing, the ghost-story vogue, and the emergence of modern detective fiction. Their varied social settings, narrative temperaments, and formal experiments reveal Christmas not as a merely decorative backdrop, but as a cultural pressure point where family obligations, class anxieties, spiritual belief, and criminal transgression meet. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich survey of how suspense fiction has imagined the festive season. Reading across its diverse tales illuminates changing conventions of clue, atmosphere, humor, and fear, while inviting productive dialogue between rational detection and the supernatural unknown. It is both an engaging seasonal volume and a valuable introduction to the breadth of classic mystery writing.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (19)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length55 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 2, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MYSTERY & DETECTIVE COLLECTION: The Winning Clue, Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, No Clue & The Man Who Forgot (Thriller Classics Series)
2The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers
3The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
4The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
5Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
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6A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
7McAllister's Christmas
8I
9II
10III
11IV
12V
13VI
14The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
15A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
16Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
17Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery
18I
19II
20III
21IV
22V
23VI
24VII
25VIII
26IX
27X
28The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
29An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
30A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
31A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
32The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
33The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
34What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights
35First Night
36Second Night
37Third Night
38Fourth Night
39Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
40The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
41Mustapha
42I
43II
44III
45IV
46The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
47Letter I
48Letter II
49Letter III
50Letter IV
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