The Red Paste Murders (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Thrilling MysteryBy Arthur Gask
Length7h 51m
About this audiobook
Arthur Gask's The Red Paste Murders is a taut interwar detective novel built around a sequence of deaths, false clues, and the ominous significance of "red paste"—imitation gemstones whose apparent triviality masks darker human motives. Written in the idiom of Golden Age crime fiction, the book combines brisk plotting, legal-medical detail, and a taste for sensational revelation. Its style is direct yet atmospheric, balancing puzzle mechanics with melodramatic menace and the moral clarity expected of classic detective narrative. Gask, an English-born Australian dentist and prolific crime novelist, brought to his fiction a practitioner's eye for physical evidence, bodily traces, and the disciplined habits of professional observation. Having lived between British literary traditions and Australian experience, he adapted the detective form for a wide readership, often emphasizing ingenuity, social disguise, and the precariousness of respectability. His background outside the metropolitan literary establishment may partly explain the energy and accessibility of his plotting. This novel is recommended to readers interested in early twentieth-century detective fiction, especially those who enjoy methodical investigations, lurid secrets, and the period charm of crime writing before the modern thriller hardened its conventions.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
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Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 6, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2CHAPTER I.—A CITY OF FEAR.
3CHAPTER II.—MY EARLY DAYS.
4CHAPTER III.—THE POT OF RED PASTE.
5CHAPTER IV.—THE FIRST CRIME.
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6CHAPTER V.—THE DEATH OF POLICEMAN HOLTHUSEN.
7CHAPTER VI.—THE ROUSING OF THE CITY.
8CHAPTER VII.—AT THE RACES
9CHAPTER VIII.—SPECIAL CONSTABLE PETER WACKS.
10CHAPTER IX.—THE GRAVEL PIT.
11CHAPTER X.—THE LAST CRIME OF WACKS.
12CHAPTER XI.—THE DAY AFTER.
13CHAPTER XII.—I AM SUSPECTED.
14CHAPTER XIII.—THE NEW MURDERER.
15CHAPTER XIV.—IN THE HOSPITAL.
16CHAPTER XV.—OUR WEDDING.
17CHAPTER XVI.—A GREAT EVANGELIST.
18CHAPTER XVII.—SIX YEARS AFTER.
19Memorable Quotes
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