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The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

Read by Kirsten Wever


George Gissing


George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…

The Bartlett Mystery

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Louis Tracy


This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no che…

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizab…

Clouds of Witness

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Dorothy L. Sayers


While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their siste…

From The Temple

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George Herbert


George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…

Unnatural Death

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Dorothy L. Sayers


This is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series.* As the story opens, a country doctor is telling Lord Peter Wimsey about the…

The Secret of Father Brown

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G. K. Chesterton


This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…

The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story

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S. S. Van Dine


The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S.…

The Red House Mystery (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

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Louis Tracy


At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …

The Dinner Club

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Sapper


Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

And Even Now

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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Dorothy L. Sayers


The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

The Prince and Betty (version 2)

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P. G. Wodehouse


The story moves from a royal palace in Europe to a squalid tenement in New York. The European action centers on the efforts of an uncouth mi…

The Holiday Round

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A. A. Milne


Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

Number Seventeen

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Louis Tracy


The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. H…

Mortal Coils

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Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

Gigolo

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Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Yet Again

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard …

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