Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs
Read by Roger Melin
Fred M. White
The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged wit…
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2)
Read by Leni
Maurice Leblanc
This collection of independent stories first published between 1905 and 1907 in the magazine Je Sais Tout recounts the tales of Arsèn…
The White Moll
Read by Rowdy Delaney
Frank L. Packard
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with brid…
Hoofbeats on the Turnpike
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…
The Eustace Diamonds
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Anthony Trollope
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…
The Mill Mystery
Read by Jacquerie
Anna Katharine Green
In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mil…
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
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Sax Rohmer
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Read by Grant Hurlock
Fergus Hume
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
Wyllard's Weird
Read by Lynne T
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…
The Bronze Hand
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Anna Katharine Green
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which mi…
The Secret Sharer
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Joseph Conrad
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leg…
The Girl Next Door
Read by Jennifer Dallman
Augusta Huiell Seaman
Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen com…
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Bri…
The Boarded Up House
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best frie…
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
Der Zweikampf
Read by Boris
Heinrich von Kleist
Im späten Mittelalter wird der Adlige Herzog Wilhelm von Breysach heimtückisch durch einen Pfeil ermordet. Die Nachforschungen erg…
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3)
Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
A series of loosely related short stories of the early adventures of France's famous gentleman burglar, Arsène Lupin, as told by an a…
The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches
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William Clark Russell
This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages.
The Mystery of the Sycamore
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Carolyn Wells
Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a …