The Definitive Detective Collection: Novels and Stories Featuring Sherlock Holmes; Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple; Lord Peter Wimsey; Sam Spade; Auguste Dupin; Alan Grant; and Father Brown

The Murder at the Vicarage; The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Whose Body?; The Man in the Queue; The Maltese Falcon; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Innocence Of Father Brown; & More

By: Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Prof Fiona Peters

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Jonathan Keeble, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, Nicholas Boulton, Karen Cass, Peter Noble

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detectives ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, in London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formidable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, and the more modern creations of Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Sam Spade as they solve crimes in wondrously inventive and ingenious ways.

This collection also includes an exclusive introduction from Professor Fiona Peters - Emeritus Professor at Bath Spa University and director of the Captivating Criminality Network - on the history and development of detective fiction from it's invention with Auguste Dupin to the mid-1900s.

Read by an esteemed cast of award-winning narrators, including Jonathan Keeble, Juliet Stevenson, Adam Sims, Karen Cass, Nicholas Boulton, and Peter Noble.

The titles included in this collection are:

Auguste Dupin, by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
• The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842)
• The Purloined Letter (1844)

Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Book One: A Study in Scarlet (1887)
• Book Three: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
• Book Four: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
• Book Five: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton

• Book One: The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911)
• Book Two: The Wisdom Of Father Brown (1914)

Hercule Poirot, by Agatha Christie

• Book One: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
• Book Four: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Lord Peter Wimsey, by Dorothy L. Sayers

• Book One: Whose Body? (1923)
• Book Two: Clouds of Witness (1926)

Inspector Alan Grant, by Josephine Tey

• Book One: The Man in the Queue (1929)

Miss Marple, by Agatha Christie

• Book One: The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)

Sam Spade, by Dashiell Hammett

• Book One: The Maltese Falcon (1930)

This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

©2025 SNR Audio (P)2025 SNR Audio