The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

Name: The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Otto Penzler
ISBN: 9781696606592

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby, Rachael Beresford, Dan Calley

Unabridged: 37 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 08/23/2022

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Collections & Anthologies, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—"detective fiction's best editor and champion" (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants.

Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries.

This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant, among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on November 08, 2022

Otto Penzler did a good job of selecting and introducing representative Victorian mysteries from a wide range of authors. Even when I knew an author or series, Penzler often chose one I hadn't read before. Very enjoyable.......more

Goodreads review by Annie on January 01, 2022

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader. The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries is another well curated anthology of classic Victorian crime short fiction edited by Otto Penzler. Released 19th Oct 2021 by Penguin Random House on their Vintage Crime / Black Lizard imprint, it's 640 pages and is......more

Goodreads review by Monica on March 24, 2025

Mystery and detective fiction was in its infancy when Queen Victoria first took the throne. Over the next sixty years, many talented authors created mysteries with interesting plots, memorable characters, and detailed scenes depicting life during that era in many different settings. The stories gath......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 31, 2021

The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries is a comprehensive reference to the detective short stories published during the Victorian and Edwardian Eras. While some of these stories were published earlier, the massive success of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' adventures kicked off a bumper crop......more

Goodreads review by joyce w. laudon on January 07, 2022

When editor Otto Penzler describes a book as big, he means it! This collection clocks in at over 600 pages. Those who are interested in the evolution of mystery and detective fiction will find much to explore and enjoy here. The tales are organized into sections entitled Detective, Crime, Internation......more