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
GenreHorror
Length7 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13CHAPTER XII THE NIGHT-WATCHES
2CHAPTER I A WHIFF OF VIOLETS
14CHAPTER XIII NO MORE VIOLET
3CHAPTER II A SIGNATURE WITH A FLOURISH
15CHAPTER XIV THE DIARY
4CHAPTER III VIOLET
16CHAPTER XV IN PAIN
5CHAPTER IV “JOHANN STRAUSS”
17CHAPTER XVI HAND TO HAND
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6CHAPTER V VON OR VAN?
18CHAPTER XVII DAVID MORE THAN REGAINS LOST GROUND
7CHAPTER VI THE WORD OF JOY
19CHAPTER XVIII FROM THE DEPTHS
8CHAPTER VII VIOLET’S CONDITIONS
20CHAPTER XIX VIOLET DECIDES
9CHAPTER VIII AT DEAD OF NIGHT
21CHAPTER XX DAVID HAS ONE VISITOR, AND EXPECTS OTHERS
10CHAPTER IX COMING NEAR
22CHAPTER XXI THE MIDNIGHT GATHERING
11CHAPTER X THE MARRIAGE-LINES
23CHAPTER XXII VAN HUPFELDT MAKES AMENDS
12CHAPTER XI SWORDS DRAWN
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