THE OBVIOUS CLUE - Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection
Victorian, Gothic and Golden Age Tales of Detection, Forensics, Ciphers, and Ingenious CrimeBy Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, 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 Rinehart
Length348h 15m
About this audiobook
The Obvious Clue: Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection surveys the enduring pleasures and formal ingenuity of detective fiction, gathering tales that turn apparent certainty into evidence, alibi, misdirection, and revelation. Its range encompasses Gothic atmospheres, police procedures, amateur sleuthing, locked-room puzzles, criminal adventures, comic inversions, and psychologically alert narratives. Familiar figures of deduction coexist with less celebrated but influential experiments in clue construction, making the volume a capacious map of the genre's development. The contributors collectively trace the passage from nineteenth-century sensation fiction and Poe's foundational analytic tale to the Golden Age's elaborate fair-play puzzle and beyond. Novelists, journalists, humorists, and architects of serial detective fiction bring distinct national and stylistic traditions to a shared preoccupation with reading signs correctly. Their varied approaches illuminate how crime writing absorbed concerns about urban modernity, class, law, gender, scientific expertise, and the reliability of narrative itself. Recommended for devoted mystery readers, students, and scholars alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare methods of detection across generations. Readers can follow the dialogue between atmospheric suspense and rigorous logic, between sensational surprise and carefully planted evidence. As both an entertaining treasury and a useful introduction to murder mystery's major conventions, it rewards close attention to every seemingly obvious clue.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length348 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 16, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Six Seconds of Darkness
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
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