Detective Fiction
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as th…
The Avenger
Read by Tom Weiss
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she …
The Millionaire Baby
Read by Dawn Larsen
Anna Katharine Green
A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive o…
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4
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Various
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
A Study in Scarlet (version 3)
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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…
The Red Thumb Mark
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R. Austin Freeman
Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too…
The Black Robe
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Wilkie Collins
The church has lost out on a valuable piece of land through wars and transfers. Father Benwell is determined to reclaim that property by the…
The Lady from Nowhere
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (I…
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…
The Hampstead Mystery
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Arthur J. Rees
A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…
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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…
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…
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 …
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 …
X Y Z - A Detective Story
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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…
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 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 Amethyst Box
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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…