The Christmas Mystery Wagon – Premium Collection
Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Tales of Detection, Ghosts, Gothic Suspense, and Festive CrimeBy Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson
Length55h 33m
About this audiobook
The Christmas Mystery Wagon – Premium Collection gathers Christmas-tide crime, ghostly suspense, domestic intrigue, and ironic comedy into a capacious survey of popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century storytelling. Its range extends from detective deduction and locked-room puzzles to supernatural visitations, moral fables, sensation fiction, and sharply observed seasonal satire. Amid hearthside rituals and winter landscapes, disappearances, inheritances, secrets, and apparitions reveal the darker pressures beneath festive sociability; ghost stories and detective tales emerge as especially resonant counterpoints. The contributors form an exceptional cross-section of British and American literary culture, bringing together major practitioners of detective fiction, Gothic and supernatural narrative, the Victorian sensation novel, comic sketch, and the modern short story. Their varied careers illuminate the period in which Christmas reading became both a domestic custom and a fertile publishing occasion. Across these voices, the collection links Victorian concerns with class, family, conscience, and hidden transgression to the developing formal pleasures of clue, revelation, and uncanny atmosphere. This volume is recommended for readers and students seeking a richly varied introduction to seasonal mystery writing and its literary antecedents. It offers the rare opportunity to compare multiple styles and national traditions within one anthology, while tracing how humor, fear, sentiment, and investigation continually reshape one another. Read together, these works provide both pleasurable winter reading and an illuminating dialogue about the cultural meanings of Christmas, secrecy, and storytelling.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length55 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ON A DARK CHRISTMAS NIGHT – 25 Holiday Spook Classics & Murder Mysteries
2The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
3The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
4Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
5A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
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6McAllister's Christmas (Arthur Cheney Train)
7I
8II
9III
10IV
11V
12VI
13The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
14A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
15Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
16Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins)
17I
18II
19III
20IV
21V
22VI
23VII
24VIII
25IX
26X
27The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
28An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
29A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
30A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
31The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
32The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
33What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
34First Night
35Second Night
36Third Night
37Fourth Night
38Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
39The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
40Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
41I
42II
43III
44IV
45The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
46Letter I
47Letter II
48Letter III
49Letter IV
50The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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