
The Mysteries for Holiday Feels
Classic Holiday Tales of Locked Rooms, Gothic Suspense, Clever Sleuths, and Golden Age CrimeBy Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch, Anna Katharine Green, G. K. Chesterton, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, Mary Roberts RinehartLength348h 17m
About this audiobook
The Mysteries for Holiday Feels gathers foundational and popular voices of detective, suspense, and crime fiction into a seasonally inviting panorama of concealment, deduction, and surprise. Its selections range from Gothic unease and locked-room ingenuity to social satire, sensation plotting, adventure, and procedural reasoning. The collection places tales of domestic comfort alongside disruptions of theft, disguise, murder, and mistaken identity, showing how mystery turns familiar gatherings and private spaces into sites of interpretive tension. Its breadth illuminates the genre's movement from nineteenth-century sensation fiction toward the polished puzzles of the early twentieth century. The contributors collectively chart the international development of popular mystery writing. British, American, and French practitioners bring distinct traditions to bear: the Gothic inheritance, the Victorian serial and sensation novel, the gentleman-thief adventure, scientific detection, and the emerging Golden Age puzzle. Their varied professional and literary backgrounds produce contrasting methods of inquiry—intuition, observation, forensic logic, comedy, and psychological suspicion. Read together, these voices reveal mystery fiction as a form deeply engaged with modern urban life, class, technology, law, and the fragile boundaries between public respectability and private secrecy. This volume is ideal for readers seeking both holiday atmosphere and a substantial introduction to the genre's formative richness. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare narrative strategies across generations and national traditions within one accessible gathering. Students, enthusiasts, and curious general readers will find ample educational value in its shifting forms of evidence, suspense, and revelation, as well as in the lively dialogue its diverse mysteries create.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length348 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 16, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Roman Hat Mystery
2Edgar Allan Poe
3The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4The Mystery of Marie Roget
5The Purloined Letter
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6Agatha Christie
7The Mysterious Affair at Styles
8Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
9Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
10Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
11Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
12Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
13Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
14Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
15Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
16Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
17Chapter 10 THE ARREST
18Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
19Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
20Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
21The Murder on the Links
229. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2318. Giraud Acts
2428. Journey’s End
25The Kidnapped Prime Minister
26The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
27The Secret Adversary
28Prologue
29Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
30Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
31Chapter 3 A Set Back
32Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
33Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
34Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
35Chapter 7 The House in Soho
36Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
37Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
38Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
39Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
40Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
41Chapter 13 The Vigil
42Chapter 14 A Consultation
43Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
44Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
45Chapter 17 Annette
46Chapter 18 The Telegram
47Chapter 19 Jane Finn
48Chapter 20 Too Late
49Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
50Chapter 22 In Downing Street