Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Woman in White - version 2

Read by Tony Addison


Wilkie Collins


Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…

The Charing Cross Mystery

Read by Kirsten Wever


J. S. Fletcher


Here's another intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher, centering on why a former high-level police official was murdered, and on whether - and…

The de Bercy Affair

Read by Lee Smalley


Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

The Riddle Ring

Read by Ruth Golding


Justin Mccarthy


This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a vi…

The Wanderer

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Frances Burney


This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why di…

The Heath Hover Mystery

Read by Roger Melin


Bertram Mitford


A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a…

Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service

Read by David Wales


Laurence Clarke


What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…

The Red Window

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Fergus Hume


Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has i…

Rough Justice

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were ther…

Arsène Lupin

Read by Leni


Maurice Leblanc


This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated …

Plague of Pythons

Read by Nick Bulka


Frederik Pohl


In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…

The Clock Struck One

Read by Celine Major


Fergus Hume


Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Ju…

The Golden Web

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


E. Phillips Oppenheim


Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …

Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery

Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)


Andy Adams


Adventure series in exotic locations. This adventure is set in the exotic Island of Hawaii and involves the search for a missing sloop and …

The Secret Mark

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Roy J. Snell


Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, whil…

The House of the White Shadows

Read by Roger Melin


B. J. Farjeon and B. L. Farjeon


Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charge…

Jacob's Ladder

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


E. Phillips Oppenheim


This is a story about Jacob Pratt who “stood bond” for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years la…

Doors of the Night

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank L. Packard


New York City, 1922—Murder—half-million dollar robbery—false accusation—secret passage—the underworld—a mystery woman—a masked man—a crooked…

Constance Dunlap

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Arthur B. Reeve


Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…

The Turnpike House

Read by Celine Major


Fergus Hume


A prolific writer of crime and detective stories Fergus Hume is known for his clever plots. The Turnpike House is another wonderful example …

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