Famous Detectives On Christmas Duty - Ultimate Murder Mysteries for Holidays
Classic Christmas Detectives, Locked Rooms, Winter Murders, and Holiday IntrigueBy Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Grace Livingston Hill, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch
Length383h 15m
About this audiobook
Famous Detectives On Christmas Duty gathers murder, theft, deception, and deduction beneath the season's ceremonial brightness, exposing Christmas as an especially fertile setting for secrets. Its selections range from Gothic atmospheres and locked-room enigmas to brisk puzzle plots, urban crime narratives, and gentler domestic mysteries. Holiday conviviality becomes a dramatic counterpoint to suspicion, while standout investigations test the detective's ability to read clues concealed within familiar rituals, crowded households, and wintry landscapes. The volume brings together formative and popular voices from British and American crime writing, whose careers helped shape the detective story from nineteenth-century sensation fiction and Gothic tale-telling to the classic puzzle mystery. These contributors encompass the analytical traditions of early ratiocination, the professional and amateur sleuth, and the adventure-inflected investigator. Their differing national settings, social milieus, and narrative methods reveal how detective fiction developed as both entertainment and a means of scrutinizing modernity, class, family life, and public order. Ideal for students of popular literature and readers seeking seasonal suspense, this anthology offers an unusually broad encounter with the genre's evolving conventions. Read together, its stories invite comparison between mood and method, coincidence and logic, festivity and menace. The collection's dialogue among diverse detective traditions makes it a rewarding holiday companion and an instructive survey of crime fiction's enduring imaginative power.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length383 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Detective Ashton-Kirk' Cases (Complete 4 Book Collection) (Annotated)
2Edgar Allan Poe
3The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4The Mystery of Marie Roget
5The Purloined Letter
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6Agatha Christie
7The Mysterious Affair at Styles
8Chapter 1 I GO TO STYLES
9Chapter 2 THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY
10Chapter 3 THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY
11Chapter 4 POIROT INVESTIGATES
12Chapter 5 “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
13Chapter 6 THE INQUEST
14Chapter 7 POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS
15Chapter 8 FRESH SUSPICIONS
16Chapter 9 DR. BAUERSTEIN
17Chapter 10 THE ARREST
18Chapter 11 THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
19Chapter 12 THE LAST LINK
20Chapter 13 POIROT EXPLAINS
21The Murder on the Links
229. M. Giraud Finds Some Clues
2318. Giraud Acts
2428. Journey’s End
25The Kidnapped Prime Minister
26The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
27The Secret Adversary
28Prologue
29Chapter 1 The Young Adventurers, Ltd.
30Chapter 2 Mr. Whittington’s Offer
31Chapter 3 A Set Back
32Chapter 4 Who Is Jane Finn?
33Chapter 5 Mr. Julius P. Hersheimmer
34Chapter 6 A Plan of Campaign
35Chapter 7 The House in Soho
36Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy
37Chapter 9 Tuppence Enters Domestic Service
38Chapter 10 Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
39Chapter 11 Julius Tells a Story
40Chapter 12 A Friend in Need
41Chapter 13 The Vigil
42Chapter 14 A Consultation
43Chapter 15 Tuppence Receives a Proposal
44Chapter 16 Further Adventures of Tommy
45Chapter 17 Annette
46Chapter 18 The Telegram
47Chapter 19 Jane Finn
48Chapter 20 Too Late
49Chapter 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery
50Chapter 22 In Downing Street
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