Fifty Thrilling Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fifty Thrilling Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Fifty Thrilling Stories

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Jerome K. Jerome, Various Authors

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 25 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2014

Synopsis

A wonderful collection of classic thrillers, mystery stories, crime tales and weird accounts of uncanny events.

1. Query by “Seamark”
2. The Furnished Room by O. Henry
3. The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
4. The Squaw by Bram Stoker
5. The 19 Club by A. J. Alan
6. The Interruption by W. W. Jacobs
7. Laura by Saki
8. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
9. The Diver by A. J. Alan
10. The Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace
11. The Burglary by Arnold Bennett
12. The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
13. Charles by A. J. Alan
14. The Marquise by George Sand
15. Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
16. Malachi’s Cove by Anthony Trollope
17. The Man who was Blind by Edwin Pugh
18. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
19. The Haunted Doll’s House by M. R. James
20. Esme by Saki
21. Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant
22. Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty by Stacy Aumonier
23. Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
24. The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
25. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
26. His Brother’s Keeper by W. W. Jacobs
27. The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett
28. The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
29. A Coincidence by A. J. Alan
30. The Perfect Murder by Stacy Aumonier
31. The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet
32. In the Reign of Terror by Anatole France
33. The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin
34. The Judgement of Paris by Leonard Merrick
35. Long Odds by Henry Rider Haggard
36. The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
37. The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier
38. Tobermory by Saki
39. The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
40. Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain
41. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini
42. The Mummy’s Foot by Théophile Gautier
43. The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman
44. The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton
45. The Marionettes by O. Henry
46. My Adventure in Jermyn Street by A. J. Alan
47. The She-Wolf by Saki
48. William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
49. War by Sherwood Anderson
50. The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.

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