100 Masterpieces of Mystery
A Panoramic Anthology of Gothic Terror, Classic Detection, Hard-Boiled Crime, and Psychological SuspenseBy Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers
Length1023h 14m
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100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance, adventure, social satire, and horror. Standout traditions include the deductive detective tale, the sensation novel, and the modern thriller, each demonstrating that concealment and revelation are as much literary principles as plot devices. The volume gathers an international and cross-generational company of writers whose work helped establish the genre's major vocabularies. Victorian and Edwardian innovators meet French architects of detective fiction, Russian and American chroniclers of moral ambiguity, and twentieth-century practitioners of noir, espionage, and domestic suspense. Together, these voices trace mystery's development alongside urban modernity, imperial anxiety, changing legal institutions, mass publishing, and the emergence of psychological fiction. Their diverse methods transform detection into a means of examining class, gender, identity, violence, and unreliable appearances. Ideal for students, devoted crime-fiction readers, and newcomers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with a durable literary form. Readers can follow recurring motifs across distinct national traditions and styles while discovering how each narrative revises the pleasures of uncertainty, inference, and surprise. It is both an inviting treasury and a valuable guide to the continuing dialogue between mystery's many masters.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length1023 hrs 14 mins
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Publish dateAug 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
2The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)
3The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
4The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
5The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
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6The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
7A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
8Part I. Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department
9Part II. The Country of the Saints
10The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)
11Chapter I. The Science of Deduction
12Chapter II. The Statement of the Case
13Chapter III. In Quest of a Solution
14Chapter IV. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
15Chapter V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
16Chapter VI. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
17Chapter VII. The Episode of the Barrel
18Chapter VIII. The Baker Street Irregulars
19Chapter IX. A Break in the Chain
20Chapter X. The End of the Islander
21Chapter XI. The Great Agra Treasure
22Chapter XII. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
23The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle)
24Part 1. The Tragedy of Birlstone
25Chapter 1. The Warning
26Chapter 2. Sherlock Holmes Discourses
27Chapter 3. The Tragedy of Birlstone
28Chapter 4. Darkness
29Chapter 5. The People of the Drama
30Chapter 6. A Dawning Light
31Chapter 7. The Solution
32Part 2. The Scowrers
33Chapter 1. The Man
34Chapter 2. The Bodymaster
35Chapter 3. Lodge 341, Vermissa
36Chapter 4. The Valley of Fear
37Chapter 5. The Darkest Hour
38Chapter 6. Danger
39Chapter 7. The Trapping of Birdy Edwards
40The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 1)
41The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 2)
42The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 3)
43The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 1)
44The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 2)
45The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 3)
46The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 4)
47The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 5)
48The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 1)
49The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 2)
50The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (pt. 3)
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