Crime & Mystery Fiction
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…
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…
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 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…
The Danvers Jewels
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from Ind…
The Poet and the Lunatics
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G. K. Chesterton
The same pen that wrote the famous Father Brown stories here presents another volume of equally delightful mystery and murder stories with a…
Kate Plus Ten
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
In the era when this story was written it was unusual to have a woman portrayed as a criminal mastermind. However in this case Edgar Wallace…
The Haunting of Low Fennel and Other Stories
Read by Ben Tucker
Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer, creator of legendary criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, brings together a collection of seven stories that are equal parts thrilling…
Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster
Read by Ben Tucker
Harold Ward
Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward relea…
Savage Holiday
Read by Jim Locke
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…
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…
His Darling Sin
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…
Number Six
Read by Ben Tucker
Edgar Wallace
The master criminal Caesar Valentine is rich, suave and seemingly untouchable. He has confounded Scotland Yard time and time again, stealin…
Benighted
Read by Ben Tucker
John Boynton Priestley
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
The Big Midget Murders
Read by Ben Tucker
Craig Rice
The Big Midget is the hit of the show in Jake Justus's night club, until someone puts an abrupt end to the Midget. Why were eleven unmatched…
The Leading Lady
Read by Cathy Howell
Geraldine Bonner
A murder mystery set against the backdrop of the theater on a peaceful Maine island. An intriguing whodunnit as multiple suspects emerge and…
The Unholy Three
Read by Ben Tucker
Tod Robbins
Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldere…
The Hole in the Wall
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arthur Morrison
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
The Layton Court Mystery
Read by Anne Erickson
Anthony Berkeley
A Roger Sheringham mystery In a typical English country house, a murder is committed. The wealthy Victor Stanworth, who'd been playing host …