Detective Fiction
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
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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
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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…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3
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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 Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
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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…
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,…
La hermandad de los siete reyes
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L. T. Meade
El señor Norman Head es un gentleman cuya desahogada posición le permite dedicar todo su tiempo a sus investigaciones cient&ia…
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola m…
Bulldog Drummond
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Sapper
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. A…
The Three Hostages
Read by Kimberly Krause
John Buchan
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond fe…
R. Holmes and Co.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffle…
The Golden Silence
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Charles Norris Williamson
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his …
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…