The Foundations of Fiction - The Murder Mystery: The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction
About this audiobook
Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.
Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues.
The Whodunit is one of the great themes of literary fiction. We all believe that given the right clue at the right time we can deduce and logically unmask the killer. Unfortunately, our authors are not the most helpful of co-workers in this regard. With their more than liberal use of plot twists, red herrings and McGuffins they merrily ensure that the only one who really knows is them and them alone until it is time to reveal who really did the deed, and how.
01 - Foundations of Fiction - Murder Mystery - An Introduction
2 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
3 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
4 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
5 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens
6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
7 - Better Dead by J M Barrie
8 - The Cone by H G Wells
9 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki
10 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
11 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
12 - The Corpse Light by J E Preston Muddock writing as Dick Donovan
13 - A Thing That Glistened by Frank R Stockton
14 - Nightmare in Yellow by Fredric Brown
15 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards
16 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery
17 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
18 - The Snow by Hugh Walpole
19 - August Heat by W F Harvey
20 - Allelulia by T F Powys
21 - Juggernaut by D K Broster
22 - The Bundle of Letters by Móritz Jókai
23 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
