Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Prelude To Adventure

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Hugh Walpole


Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…

The Green Mummy

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Fergus Hume


An eccentric Professor's quest for a green mummy leads him and his acquaintances to a murder and a bizarre adventure - Summary by Yoganandh …

The Shooting Party

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Anton Chekhov


"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…

Nothing More Than Murder

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Jim Thompson


Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to ge…

The Case With Nine Solutions

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Alfred Walter Stewart


This book was written by Alfred Walter Stewart under the pseudonym J.J. Connington:Sir Clinton Driffield is a respected police professional …

The Quest for the Rose of Sharon

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Burton Egbert Stevenson


This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened…

Fräulein Detektiv

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Matthias Mcdonnell Bodkin and Matthias McDonnell Bodkin


Im ausgehenden viktorianischen Zeitalter löst Dora Myrl als Privatdetektivin (oder "Geheimpolizistin") die unterschiedlichste…

The Bat (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


A Mysterious killer—Man? Beast? Or devil?—spreading terror throughout a nation, flouting law and lawless alike … Curious GOINGS-ON in a hous…

Nelly Channell

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Sarah Doudney


Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin He…

Knock Three-One-Two

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Fredric Brown


A serial killer is on the loose and is thirsting for another kill. Meanwhile sad sack loser Ray Fleck, compulsive gambler, has racked up a …

The Ponson Case

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Freeman Wills Crofts


Where is Sir William? His butler and valet are concerned. He disappeared after dinner and is late retiring to bed. Did Sir William walk over…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)

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James Hogg


An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

The House Without a Key (Version 2)

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Earl Derr Biggers


In this murder mystery, the main character is the victim’s nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to tr…

Murder Mistress

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Robert Colby


Scott Daniels is a washed up showbiz announcer who hit the bottle a few too many times and blew his big chance. But he starts to think his l…

Nightmare

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Cornell Woolrich


Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …

Owen Clancy's Run Of Luck

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Burt L. Standish


Owen Clancy befriends a lad he saves from peril. He and his friend foil a nefarious plot. - Summary by Howard Skyman

Paved With Gold

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Augustus Mayhew


The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life" (from the preface). Thus, this b…

The Silk Stocking Murders

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Anthony Berkeley


A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father…

The Florentine Dagger

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Ben Hecht


The police say it was suicide. The daughter says it was suicide. The daughter's fiance is sure it was murder, but who did it? The daughter?…

David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales

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Julian Hawthorne


Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…

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