The Late Tenant (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Supernatural Mystery NovelBy Louis Tracy
Length7h 40m
About this audiobook
The Late Tenant is a compact example of Louis Tracy's Edwardian mystery fiction, turning the apparently ordinary matter of a vacated dwelling into a web of suspicion, secrecy, and social unease. Its plot depends on the classic machinery of the period—hidden motives, circumstantial clues, sudden reversals, and the gradual conversion of domestic space into evidence. Tracy's style is brisk, journalistic, and lucid, combining sensation-fiction inheritance with the more orderly procedures of early detective narrative. Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was a prolific British novelist and journalist whose professional life trained him in pace, observation, and public drama. His experience in newspapers, together with his familiarity with crime reporting, imperial politics, and urban modernity, shaped fiction that often moves confidently between drawing rooms, streets, offices, and courts of inquiry. Writing at a time when detective fiction was becoming a major popular form, Tracy helped sustain its appetite for ingenuity and readable suspense. Readers interested in the development of crime fiction before the Golden Age will find The Late Tenant especially rewarding. It offers not only an engaging mystery but also a revealing glimpse of Edwardian anxieties about property, respectability, and identity.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (74)
Includes Goodreads
GenreHorror
Length7 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1British Murder Mysteries - The Louis Tracy Edition (Annotated)
2CHAPTER I A WHIFF OF VIOLETS
3CHAPTER II A SIGNATURE WITH A FLOURISH
4CHAPTER III VIOLET
5CHAPTER IV “JOHANN STRAUSS”
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6CHAPTER V VON OR VAN?
7CHAPTER VI THE WORD OF JOY
8CHAPTER VII VIOLET’S CONDITIONS
9CHAPTER VIII AT DEAD OF NIGHT
10CHAPTER IX COMING NEAR
11CHAPTER X THE MARRIAGE-LINES
12CHAPTER XI SWORDS DRAWN
13CHAPTER XII THE NIGHT-WATCHES
14CHAPTER XIII NO MORE VIOLET
15CHAPTER XIV THE DIARY
16CHAPTER XV IN PAIN
17CHAPTER XVI HAND TO HAND
18CHAPTER XVII DAVID MORE THAN REGAINS LOST GROUND
19CHAPTER XVIII FROM THE DEPTHS
20CHAPTER XIX VIOLET DECIDES
21CHAPTER XX DAVID HAS ONE VISITOR, AND EXPECTS OTHERS
22CHAPTER XXI THE MIDNIGHT GATHERING
23CHAPTER XXII VAN HUPFELDT MAKES AMENDS
24Memorable Quotes
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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