British Mystery Multipack Volume 4

Fans of British Mysteries are in for a treat with Volume 4 of British Mystery Multipacks.

Our biggest selection yet! Fourteen mystery classics from maestros of mysteries Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sax Rohmer, Kate Chopin and A. E. W. Mason plus 21 audio books. 35 BOOKS TOTAL!

THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie

Jobless and penniless, Thomas Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley place an ad in the paper marketing themselves as adventurers, leading to an encounter that starts their career as spies for an unnamed British intelligence agency.     

Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

All ten stories are presented here:

• THE DAUGHTER OF HUANG CHOW
• KERRY’S KID
• THE PIGTAIL OF HI WING HO
• THE HOUSE OF GOLDEN JOSS
• MAN WITH THE SHAVEN SKULL
• THE WHITE HAT
• TCHERIAPIN
• THE DANCE OF THE VEILS
• THE HAND OF THE MANDARIN QUONG
• THE KEY OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN

At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason

A heinous crime has been committed at the Villa Rose in Aix-les-Bains, France. A wealthy woman has been savagely murdered and the young Englishwoman who was her companion has disappeared. Authorities suspect that the Englishwoman played a role in the crime, but her fiancé, Harry Wethermill, hired a private French detective, Hanaud, to take on the case in an attempt to prove her innocence.  

“A real page turner - One of the best 'fair play' detective novels of all time.”

An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin

This short but haunting short story is included as a divertissement. It is a superb example of fin de siecle despair and a favorite of mystery anthologies.

A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War, needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins. Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.

Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.

AUDIO BOOKS

Also included are links to free full-length audio recordings of the following 21 mystery classics:

• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Borough Treasurer by J. S. Fletcher
• I Say No by Wilkie Collins
• The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume
• The Bronze Hand by Anna Katharine Green
• The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
• The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• The Czar’s Spy by William Le Queux
• The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
• The Film of Fear by Arnold Fredericks
• The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green
• The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings-Bradley
• The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster
• The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dicky
• The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
• The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Riddle Ring by Justin McCarthy
• The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green
• The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill