Crime & Mystery Fiction
Three Sides of Paradise Green
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
Two girls who live in a seemingly boring neighborhood, investigate the mysterious guardian of one of their friends. (Summary by Natalia)
Thieves Like Us
Read by Ben Tucker
Edward Anderson
Thieves Like Us (later re-released as Your Red Wagon) is the thrilling Depression-era tale of Bowie Bowers, a young convict who has escaped …
The House on the Marsh: A Romance
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Florence Warden
Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her first position as a governess. She tries to be enthusiastic about the Norfolk …
Seven Footprints to Satan
Read by Ben Tucker
Abraham Merritt
One wrong step and you owe Satan a service. Two wrong steps and you are his slave for a year. Three wrong steps and your are HIS, body and s…
To Kiss or Kill
Read by Ben Tucker
Day Keene
It was big Barney's luck to marry a girl from the social register. He knew the kind of luck when he found himself in a ring where a double c…
Jack O' Judgment
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
Here we have another fine novel by the eminent British author Edgar Wallace. The usual mystery of this sort usually revolves around the clas…
The Black Candle
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …
The Grim Thirteen
Read by Ben Tucker
Various
"We began to call a roll of American story-tellers, and as name after name was mentioned, the question arose in our minds as to whether…
Dark Hollow, Version 2
Read by Doreen Marcotte
Anna Katharine Green
Twelve years ago, the town of Shelby was in shock at the discovery of the murder of Algernon Etheridge, one of the town's most prominent cit…
The Adventures of a Man of Science
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Clifford Halifax and L. T. Meade
"We have taken down these stories from time to time as our friend. Paul Gilchrist, has related them to us. He is a man whose life study…
Weird Tales Presents: Women of Weird Fiction Volume 1
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Various
While Weird Tales Magazine is often mentioned along with some of its most well-known male authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard …
The Crime at Black Dudley
Read by Terrance Callan
Margery Allingham
During a house party at Black Dudley, a country mansion, the host is murdered and an important item disappears. A criminal gang holds the gu…
Twelve Times Zero
Read by Ben Tucker
Howard Carleton Browne
It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Wor…
The Cat's Eye
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R. Austin Freeman
The brother of a lawyer is murdered apparently in an attempted robbery and by a sheer accident Ms Blake happens to be there, her life is in …
The Labyrinth
Read by Ashley Crossman
Francis Stevens
This story takes place in Marshall City, the fictional capital of an unnamed Midwestern state, where the cousin of millionaire Hildreth Wynd…
The Black House in Harley Street
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J. S. Fletcher
In the heart of London's prestigious Harley Street stands a foreboding mansion, shrouded in mystery and whispered tales of dark secrets. &qu…
Savage Holiday
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Richard Wright
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…
Blood on My Jets
Read by Ben Tucker
Algis Budrys
They were the hired gun-rabble of the System, engaged in the dirtiest, most thankless racket in all the worlds. But Ash Holcomb was doing al…
The Mystery of Black Rock Creek
Read by Ben Tucker
Jerome K. Jerome
A mysterious dying man! A hidden diamond! Conspiracy to murder! Ghostly visitations! All this in more in this intriguing and unique story wr…
The Sturgis Wager
Read by Roger Melin
Edgar Morette
Subtitled "A Detective Story", Ralph Sturgis is a city newspaper reporter who specializes in, and has a keen knack for solving imp…