Vintage Murder Mysteries - Ultimate Anthology
Victorian Detectives, Gothic Suspense, Golden Age Puzzles, and Classic Tales of CrimeBy Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Kendrick Bangs, Agatha Christie, Robert Barr, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Melville Davisson Post, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, Victor L. Whitechurch
Length348h 18m
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Vintage Murder Mysteries - Ultimate Anthology surveys the formative decades of crime fiction through tales of murder, detection, deception, and social unease. Ranging from Gothic suspense and sensation fiction to urbane puzzle narratives, comic inversions, international adventures, and the emerging classical whodunit, the volume reveals how murder became a flexible literary instrument. Its striking variety includes atmospheric investigations, ingenious clues, seemingly impossible crimes, and contests between criminal ingenuity and interpretive reason. The collection brings together writers central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century development of detective literature. Dickens, Collins, and Poe evoke the genre's roots in urban mystery, sensation, and analytical inquiry; later contributors refine these inheritances into professional detection, gentleman-thief narratives, psychological suspense, and Golden Age formalism. British, American, and continental voices—including Christie, Leblanc, Chesterton, Rinehart, Wallace, and Freeman—collectively chart a transnational tradition shaped by modern policing, mass readership, imperial mobility, and fascination with evidence. Recommended for students, mystery enthusiasts, and readers of literary history alike, this anthology offers an unusually capacious introduction to the genre's evolving conventions. Reading across its diverse selections illuminates how each narrative revises the questions posed by the others: what counts as proof, who may investigate, and why murder so compellingly organizes a story. It is both an entertaining treasury and a valuable map of crime fiction's enduring imaginative power.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length348 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume) (Annotated)
2Vintage Murder Mysteries - Ultimate Anthology
3Edgar Allan Poe
4The Murders in the Rue Morgue
5The Mystery of Marie Roget
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6The Purloined Letter
7Agatha Christie
8The Mysterious Affair at Styles
9Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
10Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
11Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
12Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
13Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
14Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
15Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
16Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
17Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
18Chapter 10 THE ARREST
19Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
20Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
21Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
22The Murder on the Links
239. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2418. Giraud Acts
2528. Journey’s End
26The Kidnapped Prime Minister
27The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
28The Secret Adversary
29Prologue
30Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
31Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
32Chapter 3 A Set Back
33Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
34Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
35Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
36Chapter 7 The House in Soho
37Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
38Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
39Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
40Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
41Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
42Chapter 13 The Vigil
43Chapter 14 A Consultation
44Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
45Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
46Chapter 17 Annette
47Chapter 18 The Telegram
48Chapter 19 Jane Finn
49Chapter 20 Too Late
50Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
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