The Mystery Silhouette: The 50 Best Thrilling Mystery Novels
Fifty Classic Tales of Detection, Espionage, Gothic Suspense, and Criminal IntrigueBy Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Lily A. Long, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Fred M. White, Victor Bridges, Bennet Copplestone, Marion Harvey, Maurice Leblanc, Richard Dallas, John R. Watson, Arthur J. Rees, Donald McGibeny, Jacques Futrelle, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, George Mrs. Corbett, Nicholas Carter, James Anderson Peddie, Inspector Stark, A. Frank Pinkerton, Francis Worcester Doughty, Franklin W. Dixon, Emile Gaboriau, William MacLeod Raine, Israel Zangwill, Chester K. Steele, Roland Ashford Phillips, Fergus Hume, Sax Rohmer, William Le Queux, Francis Perry Elliott, Hulbert Footner, John Ironside, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Max Pemberton, F. Marion Crawford
Length349h 25m
About this audiobook
The Mystery Silhouette gathers fifty examples of popular mystery fiction at a moment when detection, espionage, sensation, and adventure repeatedly crossed generic boundaries. Its range extends from urban crime narratives and procedural inquiry to international intrigue, hidden identities, scientific puzzles, and melodramatic peril. Ratiocination shares the page with atmosphere; the puzzle plot with social observation; and the startling revelation with the suspenseful chase. Taken together, these works illuminate the rich, inventive foundations of modern thriller writing. The contributors represent a notably broad Anglo-American and European field, including formative practitioners of the detective tale, writers associated with the sensation tradition, and specialists in espionage, colonial adventure, and newspaper-era popular fiction. Their varied careers reflect the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century expansion of mass-market literature, when magazines, serial publication, and inexpensive editions made crime narratives central to international reading culture. Across differing national settings and narrative conventions, these voices develop crime as both intellectual contest and cultural symptom. This volume is especially recommended for readers and students seeking a capacious introduction to the mystery's many early forms. It offers the pleasure of individual cases while encouraging comparison among methods of detection, constructions of suspense, and changing assumptions about justice, class, technology, and modernity. The anthology's breadth makes it an inviting resource for study and a rewarding dialogue among distinct literary traditions.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length349 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Adventures of Martin Hewitt, Third Series
26CHAPTER XXXVIII
2THE CASE OF THE “FLITTERBAT LANCERS”
27The Eight Strokes of the Clock
3THE CASE OF THE DEAD SKIPPER
28I
4THE CASE OF MR. GELDARD’S ELOPEMENT
29III
5THE CASE OF THE LATE MR. REWSE
30IV
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6THE AFFAIR OF MRS. SETON’S CHILD
31VI
7THE CASE OF THE WARD LANE TABERNACLE
32VII
8The Mystery of the Downs
33VIII
9CHAPTER I
34The Cat's Paw
10CHAPTER IV
35CHAPTER I KITTY!
11CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER II THE SUMMONS
12CHAPTER XII
37CHAPTER III DETAILS
13CHAPTER XVI
38CHAPTER IV SUICIDE?
14CHAPTER XX
39CHAPTER V AT THE MORGUE
15CHAPTER XXIII
40CHAPTER VI TESTIMONY
16CHAPTER XXVI
41CHAPTER VII MRS. PARSONS HAS CALLERS
17The Mystery of the Hidden Room
42CHAPTER VIII THE CASE OF THE GILA MONSTER
18The Mystery of the Hidden Room
43CHAPTER IX MRS. PARSONS ASKS QUESTIONS
19CHAPTER I
44CHAPTER X RUMORS
20CHAPTER V
45CHAPTER XI I. O. U.
21CHAPTER XI
46CHAPTER XII A WORD OF WARNING
22CHAPTER XVII
47CHAPTER XIII BRIBERY
23CHAPTER XXII
48CHAPTER XIV AND CORRUPTION
24CHAPTER XXVI
49CHAPTER XV BOUND IN RED TAPE
25CHAPTER XXXII
50CHAPTER XVI A STARTLING ENCOUNTER
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