Detective Fiction
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Charles Dent
John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated …
The Broken Rosary
Read by Maria Therese
Grace Johnson, Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson and Grace Johnson And Harold Johnson
County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the o…
The Case of Miss Elliott
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
32 Caliber
Read by Dawn Larsen
Donald Mcgibeny
A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murd…
The Blue Envelope
Read by Dawn Larsen
Roy J. Snell
A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.
The Beetle
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Richard Marsh
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…
The Agony Column
Read by peac
Earl Derr Biggers
English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…
The Black Eagle Mystery
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Geraldine Bonner
A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…
The Green Rust (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Thomas Peckett Prest
Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…
The String of Pearls
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Unknown
The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective - Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
Read by Sibella Denton
A. Frank Pinkerton
Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial m…
The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Version 2)
Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of short stories centred on Arsène Lupin, former gentleman thief extraordinaire. In th…
A Master Hand
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Richard Dallas
This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883…
Lanagan Amateur Detective
Read by David Wales
Edward H. Hurlbut
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well - what with fishing, playing with…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Thomas Peckett Prest
This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…
The Case Of The Registered Letter
Read by David Wales
Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner
A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
The Diamond Master
Read by Dawn Larsen
Jacques Futrelle
A perfect diamond worth millions is mailed, in a plain package, to a diamond dealer. Then he finds that identical diamonds were delivered to…
The Masquerader
Read by Tom Weiss
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…