Crime & Mystery Fiction

A Master of Mysteries

Read by J. M. Smallheer


L. T. Meade


"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth t…

Behind the Green Door

Read by Cheryl Adam


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…

The Clock Strikes Thirteen

Read by Cheryl Adam


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre myste…

Manalive

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round a…

The Mystery Girl

Read by Roger Melin


Carolyn Wells


Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…

The Gold Bag

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Carolyn Wells


The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a beautiful niece, a private secretary and a will. enamored. A H…

The Dead Letter

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Metta Victoria Fuller Victor


Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations.…

The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate

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Louis Tracy


Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…

Eddystone

Read by Rainer


Wilhelm Jensen


Es ist die Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. November des Jahres 1703. Eine muntere Gesellschaft feiert auf dem Eddystone die Fertigstellung des neu…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

Read by Anna Simon


Wyndham Martyn


In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

Der Mord im Ballsaal

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Matthias Blank


Ein Arzt und ein Kriminalkommissar untersuchen gemeinsam einen mysteriösen Mordfall im Deutschen Theater München. Als sie dem T&au…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

Read by Mark Nelson


Alice Macgowan


Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…

The Amateur Cracksman

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


E. W. Hornung


"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…

Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

That Affair at Portstead Manor

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Gladys Edson Locke


An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…

The Clue of the Silken Ladder

Read by Cheryl Adam


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secre…

The Secret Pact

Read by Cheryl Adam


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…

Three Thousand Dollars

Read by Roger Melin


Anna Katharine Green


This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…

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