Detective Fiction
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secr…
That Affair Next Door
Read by Dawn Larsen
Anna Katharine Green
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…
Murder in the Gunroom
Read by Anthony Wilson
H. Beam Piper
The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of h…
The Poison Belt
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World ( http://librivox.org/the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor …
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2
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Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
The Vanishing Man
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
R. Austin Freeman
A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…
The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice
Read by Nathalie J.
Wilkie Collins
A kind, good-hearted, genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appea…
A Study In Scarlet (Version 4)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who lat…
A Study in Scarlet (version 2)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story …
Whose Body?
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just …
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
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Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
The Mystery of the Hidden Room
Read by Roger Melin
Christopher Harvey and Marion Harvey
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a my…
The Window at the White Cat
Read by Robert Keiper
Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skill…
The Leavenworth Case
Read by Kirsten Ferreri
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, …
The Old Man in the Corner
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…
The Lost House
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Richard Harding Davis
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
The Club of Queer Trades
Read by David Barnes
G. K. Chesterton
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…
The Circular Study
Read by Jacquerie
Anna Katharine Green
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…