Crime & Mystery Fiction

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)

Wyllard's Weird

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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…

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…

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

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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)

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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…

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 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

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Heinrich von Kleist


Im späten Mittelalter wird der Adlige Herzog Wilhelm von Breysach heimtückisch durch einen Pfeil ermordet. Die Nachforschungen erg…

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 Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3)

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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 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 …

Das Grab des Herrn Schefbeck

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Josef Ruederer


Herr Schefbeck ist tot, aber er findet keine Ruhe. Hat er um des reichen Scheines Willen doch allerlei Ausgaben gehabt und hinterlä&szl…

The Shadow of the Rope

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E. W. Hornung


Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and publ…

Jezebel's Daughter

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Wilkie Collins


A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was…

The Box with the Broken Seals

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


E. Phillips Oppenheim


A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equa…

Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

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William Godwin


The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …

The Whispering Man

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Henry Kitchell Webster


New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'l…

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