Copyright 2026, The Classic Tales https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/mary-fortune-c134all.aspx Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:53:16 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-white-maniac-by-mary-fortune-p328.aspx Product328 Mon, 4 Apr 2022 06:27:04 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-white-maniac-by-mary-fortune-p328.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/classictal/images/TheWhiteManiac-3000_p328_t_p1_z180.jpg" alt="The White Maniac, by Mary Fortune" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-white-maniac-by-mary-fortune-p328.aspx">The White Maniac, by Mary Fortune</a></span><br><a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-white-maniac-by-mary-fortune-p328.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$3.99</b></span> <br /><br /><div><iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1243365346&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/classictales" title="Classic Tales Audiobooks" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Classic Tales Audiobooks</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/classictales/the-white-maniac-by-mary-fortune-sample" title="The White Maniac, by Mary Fortune (Sample)" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">The White Maniac, by Mary Fortune (Sample)</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">A country doctor visits the spacious house of a Baron. But when he arrives, he draws up in shock. Everything inside and outside of the house, down to the clothing of the inhabitants, is all the same color – white. Why is everything about the house eerily bloodless?&nbsp;</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">Mary Fortune was one of the earliest female writers of crime fiction, and likely the first to write from the point of view of the detective. She enjoyed a prolific career in Australia, where she also wrote under the pseudonyms Waif Wanderer and W.W. <i style="">The White Maniac</i> was originally published in <i style="">The Australian Journal</i>, July 13<sup style="">th</sup>, 1867.</font><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><i>Running Time: 55 minutes</i></font></p><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/mary-fortune-c134all.aspx">Mary Fortune</a> to see additional products in this category.</div> https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-phantom-hearse-by-mary-fortune-p299.aspx Product299 Thu, 13 May 2021 13:51:45 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-phantom-hearse-by-mary-fortune-p299.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/classictal/images/ThePhantomHearse-3000WEB_p299_t_p1_z180.jpg" alt="The Phantom Hearse, by Mary Fortune" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-phantom-hearse-by-mary-fortune-p299.aspx">The Phantom Hearse, by Mary Fortune</a></span><br><a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/the-phantom-hearse-by-mary-fortune-p299.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b><strike>$2.99</strike> <span color="red"><b>$2.49</b></span></b></span> <br /><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino">The Phantom Hearse means death. Death always comes to the house where it’s sighted on moonlit evenings. But why does wicked old Jones love to talk about it so much?</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino">Mary Helena Fortune was a pioneer in detective fiction, albeit largely a unknown one. She travelled from Canada to Australia in 1855, where for the next fifty years, she contributed to magazines and newspapers under the pseudonyms “Waif Wanderer”, “W.W.”and her own initials “M.H.F.”. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, serialized novels, memoirs, and even gothic romance. But most significantly, she wrote over 500 detective stories. Her collection of stories,&nbsp;<i>The Detective’s Album</i>, by W.W. was published in 1871, and was described as, “The first book of detective stories to appear in Australia”. Only one copy is known to remain in existence.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino">Mary Fortune helped delineate a few of the techniques significant in detective fiction. For example, the forensic manner in which the crime is treated, and delivering the story from the point of view of the detective.&nbsp;<i>The Phantom Hearse</i>also includes a supernatural element, which is also innovative, and synchronous with some Russian crime fiction.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="palatino"><i>Running time: 1 hour, 14 minutes</i></font></p><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.classictalesaudiobooks.com/mary-fortune-c134all.aspx">Mary Fortune</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>