The Mystery Fiction Vault: 75 Books
A Treasury of Victorian Sensation, Golden Age Detectives, Espionage Thrillers, and Juvenile AdventuresBy Louis 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 Seaman
Length506h 52m
About this audiobook
The Mystery Fiction Vault: 75 Books surveys the remarkable elasticity of mystery writing, gathering detective puzzles, espionage adventures, crime melodramas, juvenile mysteries, and tales of international intrigue. Its range extends from sensation fiction and the foundational detective tradition to the briskly plotted popular narratives of the early twentieth century. Classic investigations, masked identities, secret societies, stolen inheritances, and ingenious revelations recur across the volume, demonstrating how mystery became a capacious form for suspense, social observation, and imaginative escape. The contributors represent several generations of writers working across British, American, and European popular-literary cultures. Foundational figures of detective and sensation fiction stand beside practitioners of the Golden Age puzzle, the espionage thriller, the adventure mystery, and fiction written especially for young readers. This breadth places the collection within the development of modern mass-market literature, where magazine serials, inexpensive books, and recurring fictional detectives cultivated broad audiences. Together, these voices illuminate the genre's changing conventions: evidence, concealment, mobility, danger, and the restoration—or complication—of order. This volume is especially recommended for readers, students, and researchers seeking a wide-angle encounter with mystery fiction's history. By placing seventy-five books in dialogue, it offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative strategies, cultural assumptions, and evolving ideas of detection. Its variety makes it both an inviting treasury of suspense and a valuable resource for understanding the many traditions gathered under the name of mystery.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length506 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1File No. 113
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19The Mystery of Cleverly
20CHAPTER I IN WHICH A BULLY COMES TO GRIEF
21CHAPTER II HERBERT FINDS HIMSELF THE INNOCENT CAUSE OF MUCH TROUBLE
22CHAPTER III PROVING THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
23CHAPTER IV IN WHICH FORTUNE UNEXPECTEDLY FAVORS DAVID HARKINS
24CHAPTER V IN WHICH DAVID HARKINS BECOMES THE VICTIM OF PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES
25CHAPTER VI IN WHICH DAVID HARKINS QUITS THIS LIFE AND TAKES HIS SECRET WITH HIM
26CHAPTER VII IN WHICH HERBERT MEETS ADVERSITY AND LEARNS THE MEANING OF HARD WORK
27CHAPTER VIII HERBERT BECOMES AMBITIOUS AND IS FASCINATED BY THE SMELL OF PRINTERS’ INK
28CHAPTER IX HAVING BECOME A NEWSPAPER WRITER, HERBERT LOOKS FOR NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER
29CHAPTER X WHICH TELLS OF HOW HERBERT CAME TO LEAVE THE TOWN OF CLEVERLY
30CHAPTER XI HERBERT IS AWED AND AMAZED BY HIS FIRST SIGHT OF A GREAT CITY
31CHAPTER XII IN WHICH HERBERT BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH SOME OF THE METHODS OF MODERN JOURNALISM
32CHAPTER XIII HERBERT MAKES A HIT AND TIDES OVER A TEMPORARY FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY
33CHAPTER XIV IN WHICH HERBERT IS GIVEN AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY TO DISTINGUISH HIMSELF
34CHAPTER XV IN WHICH HERBERT DOES SOME VERY HARD WORK AND RECEIVES A TERRIBLE SHOCK
35CHAPTER XVI IN WHICH HERBERT LOSES HIS POSITION AND RETIRES IN DISGRACE
36CHAPTER XVII THE YOUNG REPORTER FINDS THAT THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY IS BARRED TO HIM
37CHAPTER XVIII WHEREIN A BLACK SHEEP SHOWS A DESIRE TO CHANGE HIS COLOR
38CHAPTER XIX PERSISTENCE HAS ITS REWARD AND HERBERT FINALLY MEETS THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
39CHAPTER XX IN WHICH A STAIN IS REMOVED FROM THE MEMORY OF AN INNOCENT MAN
40CHAPTER XXI IN WHICH A TELEPHONE CALL PRODUCES SOME UNEXPECTED RESULTS
41CHAPTER XXII PROVING THAT BAD PERSONS, LIKE BAD PENNIES, ARE CONSTANTLY REAPPEARING
42CHAPTER XXIII IN WHICH A BAD MAN REACHES THE END OF HIS ROPE
43CHAPTER XXIV WHEREIN THE CLOUDS PASS AWAY AND THE SUN SHINES ON HERBERT HARKINS
44CHAPTER XXV DEMONSTRATING THE TRUTH OF THE SAYING THAT ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
45The Silent Barrier
46THE SILENT BARRIER
47CHAPTER III
48CHAPTER V
49CHAPTER VII
50CHAPTER IX
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