Detective Fiction
The Club of Masks
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Allen Upward
It was far from a simple case of opium poisoning — the affair at the Domino Club. Zenobia Salome, the Leopardess, whichever of those silk ma…
The Maxwell Mystery
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Carolyn Wells
An early murder mystery by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, and the first one to feature her famous detective, Fleming Stone.A gr…
The Wrong Letter
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Walter S. Masterman
The Home Secretary is found murdered. Even more bizarre is that the fact is communicated to the Scotland Yard before the commission of the d…
Under the Tiger's Claws
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Dalehouse Murder
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Francis Everton
An assorted group of young people gather in a Merchester house to take part in the annual lawn tennis tournament. The summer is extremely ho…
The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral
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Ronald Knox
If it was murder, how did the murderer get through a door and leave it locked on the inside? If suicide, how did the dead man turn off the g…
The Squealer [aka The Squeaker]
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Edgar Wallace
In 1920s London, a mysterious informant - known only as the Squealer - is systematically betraying London's criminal class to the authoritie…
The Three Just Men
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Edgar Wallace
It is early twentieth century England and all is not well. Innocent citizens are found murdered by an apparent snake bite accredited to a di…
The Meredith Mystery
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
The Thirteenth Letter
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
This classic murder mystery begins in a hospital and ends in a passionate embrace. What happens in between will intrigue and entertain lover…
The Tower Treasure (Version 4)
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Franklin W. Dixon
A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…
A Study in Scarlet (Version 8)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This exciting story is the first of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels and stories and the beginning of the famed duo with Dr. Watson who …
Guilt of the Brass Thieves
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …
The Moon Rock
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Arthur J. Rees
Robert Turold has a monomania - An English title which had fallen into abeyance hundreds of years ago. Just when he was about to stake his c…
The Maltese Falcon
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A beautiful client, a valuable artifact, fake identities, double-crosses and dead bodies. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective Sam Spade has …
The Nameless Man
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between California and…
The Sign of the Four (Version 5)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the second of the novels chronicling the adventures of the great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, a strange mystery is afoot as a y…
The Murders in Praed Street
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John Street
A series of murders occur in Praed Street of London and the eccentric scientist Dr Priestly sees the connection in them. Only to discover th…
Prince Zaleski
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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel
Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual detective in Prince Zaleski in his first published book. Ensconced within his orn…
Faded Pictures
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William Vaughn Moody
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2…