THE WHODUNIT COLLECTION - 15 British Mystery Novels in One Volume
Fifteen Early British Crime Novels of Cryptic Clues, Hidden Guilt, and DetectionBy Frank Froest, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Isabel Ostrander
Length135h 27m
About this audiobook
This capacious gathering of fifteen mystery novels surveys the many pleasures of the classic whodunit: concealed motives, misleading appearances, procedural inquiry, and the gradual restoration of intelligibility from crime. Moving between detective investigation, adventure-inflected suspense, domestic intrigue, and international melodrama, the volume demonstrates how broadly the mystery form could accommodate social observation and narrative experiment. Its locked secrets, imperilled travellers, coded evidence, and shifting suspicions make each novel both an independent puzzle and part of a larger history of popular crime fiction. Frank Froest, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, and Isabel Ostrander represent a period in which detective writing was becoming a major transatlantic literary industry, shaped by magazine culture, railway travel, urban modernity, and readers' appetite for ingenious plots. Their varied professional and collaborative careers bring distinct tonal registers to the collection, from official detection and investigative realism to romance, exotic setting, and psychological tension. Read together, these voices illuminate the conventions that helped prepare the ground for the Golden Age mystery while retaining the energetic hybridity of earlier popular fiction. Ideal for students, genre historians, and devoted puzzle readers, this omnibus offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative methods across fifteen substantial works. It rewards attentive reading with both entertainment and a wide-ranging lesson in how crime fiction stages evidence, class, mobility, gender, and moral judgment. The novels' conversations with one another invite readers to trace the enduring allure and evolving possibilities of the whodunit.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (38)
Includes Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length135 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1His Last Bow – Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (Annotated)
26Chapter XXII
2THE WHODUNIT COLLECTION
27Chapter XXIII
3Frank Froest
28Chapter XXIV
4The Maelstrom
29Chapter XXV
5Chapter I
30Chapter XXVI
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6Chapter II
31Chapter XXVII
7Chapter III
32Chapter XXVIII
8Chapter IV
33Chapter XXIX
9Chapter V
34Chapter XXX
10Chapter VI
35Chapter XXXI
11Chapter VII
36Chapter XXXII
12Chapter VIII
37Chapter XXXIII
13Chapter IX
38Chapter XXXIV
14Chapter X
39Chapter XXXV
15Chapter XI
40The Grell Mystery
16Chapter XII
41Chapter I
17Chapter XIII
42Chapter II
18Chapter XIV
43Chapter III
19Chapter XV
44Chapter IV
20Chapter XVI
45Chapter V
21Chapter XVII
46Chapter VI
22Chapter XVIII
47Chapter VII
23Chapter XIX
48Chapter VIII
24Chapter XX
49Chapter IX
25Chapter XXI
50Chapter X
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