Crime & Mystery Fiction
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are
Read by Bev J Stevens
William Godwin
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …
Jezebel's Daughter
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Wilkie Collins
A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was…
The Box with the Broken Seals
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equa…
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 Whispering Man
Read by Kate Follis
Henry Kitchell Webster
New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'l…
Red Money
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Fergus Hume
Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and t…
Boston Blackie
Read by Winston Tharp
Jack Boyle
Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, …
The Dead Alive
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Wilkie Collins
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…
The Notting Hill Mystery
Read by Kevin Green
Charles Warren Adams
Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "T…
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Read by Anna Simon
Frank L. Packard
In the previous book of adventures, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a…
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…
Dead Men's Shoes
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…
The Angel of Terror (version 2)
Read by Allyson Hester
Edgar Wallace
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new …
Whither Thou Goest
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her again…
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 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 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…
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 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…
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 …