Detective Fiction
The Case Of The Registered Letter
Read by David Wales
Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner
A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
The Diamond Master
Read by Dawn Larsen
Jacques Futrelle
A perfect diamond worth millions is mailed, in a plain package, to a diamond dealer. Then he finds that identical diamonds were delivered to…
The Masquerader
Read by Tom Weiss
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola m…
The Three Hostages
Read by Kimberly Krause
John Buchan
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond fe…
Bulldog Drummond
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Sapper
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. A…
The Golden Silence
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Charles Norris Williamson
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his …
R. Holmes and Co.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffle…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1
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Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des d&…
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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E. W. Hornung
Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, …
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Read by Kirsten Wever
Arthur Morrison
Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…
The Ashiel Mystery - A Detective Story
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Mrs. Charles Bryce
Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Dete…
The Singing Bone or The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
Read by Edmund Bloxam
R. Austin Freeman
In its original form, this book was published with the title, "The Singing Bone." It was later republished as "The Adventures…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
The Other Side of the Door
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Lucia Chamberlain
It's 1865 in the city of San Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with s…
The Mikado Jewel
Read by Matt Perard
Fergus Hume
A widow has been murdered in the home of a relative on a foggy night in London town when all residents were off on to the theatre, and one t…
The Black Bag
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Louis Joseph Vance
Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…
The False Faces
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Louis Joseph Vance
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respecta…
The Seen and the Unseen
Read by Sonia
Richard Marsh
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a …