The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Edwardian crime tales of London: detectives, barrister sleuths, political plots, international intrigue, and the uncannyBy Louis Tracy
Length114h 20m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy gathers the author's deft exercises in crime, detection, and adventure, displaying the brisk plotting and atmospheric clarity that made early twentieth-century popular fiction so compelling. Tracy's mysteries often combine ingenious criminal puzzles with romance, imperial intrigue, and melodramatic peril, situating them within the transitional moment between Victorian sensation fiction and the modern detective novel. His prose is lucid, energetic, and carefully paced, privileging narrative momentum while still attending to social setting, motive, and the psychology of suspicion. Louis Tracy was an English journalist and prolific novelist whose professional life sharpened his eye for incident, public drama, and the mechanics of suspense. His background in newspapers helped shape a fiction alert to contemporary anxieties: urban crime, political conspiracy, technological change, and the instability of identity in a rapidly modernizing world. Writing sometimes under pseudonyms and in collaboration, Tracy brought to genre fiction a reporter's discipline and a storyteller's appetite for surprise. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the genealogy of detective fiction and in popular narratives that bridge Victorian and Edwardian tastes. It offers both entertainment and literary-historical value: brisk mysteries, vivid situations, and a revealing portrait of crime fiction before the genre's later formal codification.
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 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
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$2.99 · $0.00
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The King of Diamonds: A Tale of Mystery and AdventureLouis Tracy9h 7m4.2 (96)$1 · $0.00
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British Murder Mysteries - The Louis Tracy EditionLouis Tracy114h 44m$1.99 · $0.00
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Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
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Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
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