Mystery Cases For Christmas – Test your Power of Deduction During the Holidays
Classic Christmas Whodunits of Detection, Suspense, and Ingenious CrimeBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, O. Henry, R. Austin Freeman, G. K. Chesterton, Emmuska Orczy, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Fred M White, Thomas Hardy, Sabine Baring-Gould, Robert Barr, Katherine Rickford, Catherine L. Pirkis
Length13h 43m
About this audiobook
Mystery Cases For Christmas gathers classic detective and crime tales into a seasonal invitation to test one's powers of inference. Across puzzle mysteries, sensation fiction, comic reversals, courtroom investigations, psychological suspense, and atmospheric tales of rural and urban unease, the volume demonstrates the remarkable elasticity of the genre. Holiday framing heightens the pleasures of concealment and revelation: domestic gatherings, winter isolation, and apparently ordinary festivities become occasions for clues, misdirection, and moral surprise. Its contributors represent a broad Anglo-American tradition extending from Victorian sensation writing to the Golden Age's formative detective idioms. Figures associated with consulting detectives, scientific investigation, legal procedure, adventure fiction, and paradoxical crime narratives appear alongside less frequently anthologized voices, including women writers whose work enlarges the collection's social and imaginative range. Together, these authors chart the development of popular mystery as a literary form shaped by imperial modernity, mass readership, changing forensic knowledge, and enduring anxieties about class, family, and trust. Recommended for devoted crime readers, students of popular literature, and holiday browsers alike, this anthology offers more than a sequence of clever cases. It permits readers to compare methods of deduction, narrative voices, and competing visions of justice within one compact volume. Its varied selections foster a lively dialogue between tradition, innovation, entertainment, and literary history.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 17, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1British Murder Mysteries: J. S. Fletcher Edition (40+ Titles in One Volume) (Annotated)
2Mystery Cases For Christmas – Test your Power of Deduction During the Holidays
3The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
4The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
5Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
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6A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
7McAllister's Christmas (Arthur Cheney Train)
8I
9II
10III
11IV
12V
13VI
14The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
15A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
16Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
17Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins)
18I
19II
20III
21IV
22V
23VI
24VII
25VIII
26IX
27X
28The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
29An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
30A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
31A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
32Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
33I
34II
35III
36IV
37The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
38Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
39The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)
40The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)
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