Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre myste…
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…
The Dead Letter
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…
Manalive
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round a…
The Gold Bag
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Carolyn Wells
The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a beautiful niece, a private secretary and a will. enamored. A H…
The Stowmarket Mystery
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Louis Tracy
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations.…
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal
Read by Anna Simon
Wyndham Martyn
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…
The Million-Dollar Suitcase
Read by Mark Nelson
Alice Macgowan
Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…
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 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…
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
The Secret Pact
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…
That Affair at Portstead Manor
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Gladys Edson Locke
An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…
The Clue of the Silken Ladder
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secre…
Three Thousand Dollars
Read by Roger Melin
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…
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Anna Katharine Green
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman wit…
Midnight
Read by Roger Melin
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…
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary
Read by Holly Jenson
Geraldine Bonner
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …
The Italian
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Ann Radcliffe
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…