Detective Fiction
The Thing from the Lake
Read by Roger Melin
Eleanor M. Ingram
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assista…
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Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloure…
The Black Moth (version 2)
Read by Terra Mendoza
Georgette Heyer
Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, has been disgraced by his brother. Gone for six years, living the life a highwayman he meets…
An Eye For An Eye
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram …
The Mystery Girl
Read by Roger Melin
Carolyn Wells
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…
Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent
Read by Pete Milan
John Thomas Mcintyre
Those who have read "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" will recall references to several affairs in which the United States government fo…
X Y Z - A Detective Story
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
"Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently up…
A Study In Scarlet (version 5)
Read by Robert Dixon
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A Study in Scarlet" is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from …
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
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J. S. Fletcher
A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle o…
The Amethyst Box
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of dea…
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas W. Hanshew
Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance o…
The Brand of Silence
Read by Roger Melin
Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence - A…
The Secret of Lonesome Cove
Read by Roger Melin
Samuel Hopkins Adams
A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near…
The Secret House
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Edgar Wallace
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely s…
The Leavenworth Case (Version 2)
Read by Kevin Green
Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…
The Big Bow Mystery
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Israel Zangwill
It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is…
That Mainwaring Affair
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Anna Maynard Barbour
As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagi…
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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Various
To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" released on LibriVox, here is a collection of stor…
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations.…
The Confession
Read by Wina Hathaway
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the "Had I but known" mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parson…