The Secret Room Murders (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Locked-Room Country House Mystery of Inheritance, Family Secrets, and Gothic SuspenseBy Charles Wadsworth Camp
Length9h 26m
About this audiobook
The Secret Room Murders is a briskly engineered mystery of concealed spaces, inherited guilt, and the unsettling ambiguity of domestic architecture. Camp employs the locked-room tradition with a distinctly American inflection: plainspoken narration, Gothic interiors, and an emphasis on practical detection rather than metaphysical terror. The novel belongs to the interwar flowering of puzzle fiction, yet it retains the shadowed atmosphere of nineteenth-century sensation literature, turning a room into both crime scene and psychological emblem. Charles Wadsworth Camp was an American journalist, playwright, and novelist whose professional life trained him in pace, observation, and dramatic disclosure. His experience in newspaper work and as a war correspondent sharpened his eye for circumstance under pressure, while his fiction often reveals an interest in fear as a social force: rumor, family secrecy, and the vulnerability of reason when confronted by death. These concerns plausibly shaped the novel's taut structure and theatrical reveals. Readers who enjoy classic detective fiction, country-house enigmas, and mysteries in which architecture itself becomes a suspect will find much to admire here. The book is especially rewarding for those interested in the evolution of American crime writing before the hard-boiled school came to dominate.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (11)
Includes Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Secret Room Murders (Annotated)
2Chapter I. Katherine Hears the Sly Step of Death at the Cedars
3Chapter II. The Case Against Bobby
4Chapter III. Howells Delivers Himself to the Abandoned Room
5Chapter IV. A Strange Light Appears at the Deserted House
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6Chapter V. The Crying Through the Woods
7Chapter VI. The One Who Crept in the Private Staircase
8Chapter VII. The Amazing Meeting in the Shadows of the Old Courtyard
9Chapter VIII. What Happened at the Grave
10Chapter IX. Bobby's Vigil in the Abandoned Room
11Chapter X. The Cedars is Left to Its Shadows
12Memorable Quotes
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