Mystery
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
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Sax Rohmer
Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they s…
Fenton's Quest
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Washington Irving
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…
The Sign of Silence
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his fath…
Flower of the North
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James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…
No Name
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Wilkie Collins
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is …
The Evil Guest
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted …
The Amateur Cracksman
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
E. W. Hornung
"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…
Dead Men's Money
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J. S. Fletcher
This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems... (Summary by Ges…
The Dragon's Secret
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a s…
The Ruby and the Caldron
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Anna Katharine Green
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
Three Thousand Dollars
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Anna Katharine Green
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Gaston Leroux
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
Lucille Ball
Various
Lucille Ball; there is only one Lucy! Here are several different shows she starred in. 109 episodes of her radio program "My Favourite …
The Secret Passage
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Fergus Hume
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…
The Stillwater Tragedy
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi…
The Teeth of the Tiger
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Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Midnight
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Octavus Roy Cohen
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--the…
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and th…
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Maurice Leblanc
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title &q…