Great Victorian Detective Stories, G. K. Chesterton
Great Victorian Detective Stories, G. K. Chesterton
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Great Victorian Detective Stories

Author: G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/10/2015


Synopsis

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the Victorian era, from the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes, to the mild mannered Father Brown, to the feisty J. G. Reeder.

The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton
The Wedding Guest by Guy Boothby
The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin
The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
Murder under the Microscope by William Russell
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
Who killed Zebedee by Wilkie Collins
The Treasure Hunt by Edgar Wallace
The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton
The Red Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Story of Baelbrow by E & H Heron

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography,Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics, and even those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian and came to identify such a position with Catholicism more and more, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time magazine, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."


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