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Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery: The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction
By Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, J. M. Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey
Unabridged — 13 hours, 11 minutes
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By Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, J. M. Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey
Unabridged — 13 hours, 11 minutes
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