Detective Fiction
The Mikado Jewel
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Fergus Hume
A widow has been murdered in the home of a relative on a foggy night in London town when all residents were off on to the theatre, and one t…
The Black Bag
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Louis Joseph Vance
Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…
The False Faces
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Louis Joseph Vance
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respecta…
The Seen and the Unseen
Read by Sonia
Richard Marsh
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a …
Tom Ossington's Ghost
Read by Patti Cunningham
Richard Marsh
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
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Anna Katharine Green
Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection c…
Man Overboard
Read by Roger Melin
Francis Marion Crawford
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. S…
Murder at Bridge
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Anne Austin
Inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Mean…
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2)
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J. S. Fletcher
A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way …
The Exploits Of Elaine
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur B. Reeve
The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only…
The Thousandth Woman
Read by Lee Smalley
E. W. Hornung
E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th…
Red Arrows in the Night
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold…
The Dark House
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
George Manville Fenn
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most …
The Expressman and the Detective
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …