THE MAELSTROM & THE GRELL MYSTERY – Two Thriller Classics in One Volume (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Scotland Yard Thriller & Whodunit Murder MysteryBy Frank Froest
Length20h 2m
About this audiobook
Bringing together The Maelstrom and The Grell Mystery, this volume restores two vigorous examples of early twentieth-century British thriller writing, poised between Victorian sensation fiction and the modern police procedural. Froest's plots move through drawing rooms, criminal networks, false identities, and forensic clues with brisk narrative economy, favoring methodical detection over melodrama. Their importance lies in the authenticity of their investigative detail: Scotland Yard is not merely scenery but the intellectual engine of the stories. Frank Froest was unusually equipped to write such fiction. A former officer of the Metropolitan Police and a senior figure in the Criminal Investigation Department, he brought to popular literature the habits of observation, skepticism, and procedural discipline acquired in actual detective work. His career exposed him to the mechanics of crime and the public fascination with it, giving his novels a credibility that distinguishes them from many contemporaneous mysteries. Readers interested in the development of detective fiction will find this pairing especially rewarding. It offers suspense, historical atmosphere, and a revealing glimpse of crime writing before the Golden Age, when professional policing was becoming a central literary subject.
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
Length20 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE MAELSTROM & THE GRELL MYSTERY – Two Thriller Classics in One Volume (Annotated)
7The Grell Mystery (pt. 1)
2THE MAELSTROM & THE GRELL MYSTERY – Two Thriller Classics in One Volume
8The Grell Mystery (pt. 2)
3The Maelstrom (pt. 1)
9The Grell Mystery (pt. 3)
4The Maelstrom (pt. 2)
10The Grell Mystery (pt. 4)
5The Maelstrom (pt. 3)
11The Grell Mystery (pt. 5)
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6The Maelstrom (pt. 4)
12Memorable Quotes
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