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19 TITLES on DVD in Mp3 format iPod & Mp3 Player ready...!
That Mainwaring Affair
by Anna Maynard Barbour (d. 1941)
As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagine the shocking chain of events that he is about to set into motion. This best-selling mystery novel was first published in 1901 and remains an entertaining mix of detective work, courtroom drama and family intrigue. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)
(Running Time approx 9+ hrs)
The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, but the technical excellence of her books caused several law schools to use The Leavenworth Case as a textbook in some of their classes, as an example of how misleading circumstantial evidence can be.(Summary by Kirsten Ferreri)
(Running Time approx 10 hrs)
That Affair Next Door
by Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the place empty. Who was she and why was she in the empty house all alone? Summary by Dawn L.
(Running Time approx 11 hrs)
A Strange Disappearance
by Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father).
(Running Time approx 5 hrs)
Murder at Bridge
by Anne Austin (1895-??)
Inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Meanwhile, Special Investigator Bonnie Dundee demands a re-enactment of the ‘death hand’ to try and find out why, and how, the victim was killed during a high society Bridge party. (Summary by Gesine)
(Running Time approx 9 hrs)
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
by Augusta Groner (1850-1929). Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron (1869-1948).
The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text)
(Running Time approx 2 hrs)
Trent’s Last Case (The Woman in Black)
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)
Trent’s Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the same time the first major send-up of that very genre: Not only does Trent fall in love with one of the primary suspects — usually considered a no-no — he also, after painstakingly collecting all the evidence, draws all the wrong conclusions. Convinced that he has tracked down the murderer of a business tycoon who was shot in his mansion, he is told by the real perpetrator over dinner what mistakes in the logical deduction of the solution of the crime he has made. On hearing what really happened, Trent vows that he will never again attempt to dabble in crime detection. (Summary from Wikipedia)
(Running Time approx 7 hrs)
Three Max Carrados Detective Stories
by Ernest Bramah (1868-1942)
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ‘Kai Lung’ books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married detectives. Max Carrados was however probably the first blind detective. (Summary by Andy Minter)
(Running Time approx 3 hrs)
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
by Fergus Hume (1859 - 1932)
“Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal streets of this great city, and is surrounded by an inpenetrable mystery. …
“On the twenty-seventh day of July, at the hour of twenty minutes to two o’clock in the morning, a hansom cab drove up to the police station in Grey Street, St. Kilda, and the driver made the startling statement that his cab contained the body of a man who he had reason to believe had been murdered…” (Excerpt from the first chapter.)
(Running Time approx 8 hrs)
The Secret Passage
by Fergus Hume (1859 - 1932)
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…” (summary by Dawn Larsen and J.M. Smallheer)
(Running Time approx 9 Hrs)
The Dark House
by George Manville Fenn (1831 – 1909)
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the people at the reading of the will did not know the deceased in person, but had received kindnesses from him, for instance by the payment of school and university fees. The principal beneficiary, a great-nephew, also did not know him. The only two people who really knew him were the old lawyer who dealt with his affairs, and an old Indian servant. Yet when the will had been read, and they all went to where the treasure–gold, jewels and bank-notes–were supposed to be hidden, nothing could be found.
(Summary by Gutenberg)
(Running Time approx 5 Hrs)
Dead Men’s Money
by J. S. Fletcher (1863-1935)
This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems… (Summary by Gesine)
(Running Time approx 7+ Hrs)
The Middle of Things
by J. S. Fletcher (1863-1935)
A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, an imposter, secret papers, all combine to mystify even the police themselves. Is Hyde as innocent of the crime as he claims? What is the clue of the veiled woman and the diamond ring? Things are not what they seem to be and how can Viner prove the man’s innocence? (Summary by Kehinde)
(Running Time approx 7 Hrs)
The Middle Temple Murder
by J. S. Fletcher (1863-1935)
The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London’s law courts. A journalist and a young lawyer start investigating. - This classic English murder mystery was written in 1920 by J.S. Fletcher, himself a lawyer turned journalist and author. (Summary by Gesine)
(Running Time approx 8 Hrs)
The Paradise Mystery
by J. S. Fletcher (1863-1935)
A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)
(Running Time approx 8 Hrs)
Lady Audley’s Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder, and seduction, made this a shocking but highly successful story for Victorian audiences. It remains one of the best examples of 19th century sensational fiction, and is a wonderfully absorbing book. (Summary written by gloriana).
(Running Time approx 14 Hrs)
Fortieth Door, The
by Mary Hastings Bradley (d. 1976)
An American archaeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen years earlier all play into this entertaining tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure. (summary written by J. M. Smallheer)
(Running Time approx 7 Hrs)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941)
A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself. In an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes and Lupin actually meet, briefly in this first volume, and more substantially in the next. But after legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to “Herlock Sholmes.”
(Running Time approx 6 Hrs)
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin
by Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941)
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865-1921)
Arsène Lupin returns in a wonderful story of disguises, love, and of course treasure. Once again, Lupin crosses paths with the famous Holmlock Shears. But this time Arsène matches wits with Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy. Every step that Lupin takes has Beautrelet right on his heels. Has Lupin finally met his match? Will Beautrelet discover the secret of the Hollow Needle? And has the gentleman burglar met another match as well, one who will lead him away from his life of crime forever? (Summary by Alex Patterson)
(Running Time approx 7 Hrs)
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