Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Big Time
Read by Karen Savage
Fritz Leiber
A classic locked room mystery, in a not-so-classic setting. (Intro by Karen Savage)
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…
The Holladay Case
Read by Cate Barratt
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in…
The Valley of Silent Men
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decid…
The Bishop's Secret
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Deep Lake Mystery
Read by Roger Melin
Carolyn Wells
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …
Hand and Ring
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Anna Katharine Green
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…
The Fortieth Door
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Mary Hastings Bradley
A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…
The Trees of Pride
Read by Maria Therese
G. K. Chesterton
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as…
The Midnight Queen
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
May Agnes Fleming
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…
Therese Raquin
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Émile Zola
An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled whe…
Short Mystery Story Collection 004
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of…
The Borough Treasurer
Read by MaryAnn
J. S. Fletcher
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…
Short Mystery Story Collection 006
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 006: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
The Black Star
Read by Roger Melin
Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, ra…
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Carolyn Wells
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …
The Postmaster's Daughter
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Louis Tracy
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …
The Herapath Property
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
J. S. Fletcher
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…
Uncle Silas
Read by Great Plains
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest…
The Uttermost Farthing
Read by MaryAnn
R. Austin Freeman
Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological a…