Crime & Mystery Fiction
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 …
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
Read by Steven Seitel
J. S. Fletcher
A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…
Doctor Nikola Returns
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
Guy Boothby’s character Doctor Antonio Nikola was one of the first great diabolical criminal masterminds. He was a Victorian forerunner to F…
The Sealed Message
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious message on a record is found sealed in a cylinder. A heroine straight out of a fairy-tale is kept secluded by a guardian with q…
The Evil Shepherd
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows,…
It Happened in Egypt
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Charles Norris Williamson
Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret - a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetra…
The Woman of Mystery
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Maurice Leblanc
In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate broo…
In the Bishop's Carriage
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Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
Stolen Idols
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the su…
The Other Side of the Door
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Lucia Chamberlain
It's 1865 in the city of San Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with s…
A Bullet for Cinderella
Read by Winston Tharp
John D Macdonald and John Dann Macdonald
HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ...But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.I watc…
Vicky Van
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Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells always provides an enjoyable read and this one is probably one of her most intriguing murder mysteries. Vicky Van is a lithe, …
Mad Barbara
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Warwick Deeping
It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young woman discovers the body of her murdered father. In her grief, she tries to mak…
The Pit Prop Syndicate
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follo…
Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl
Read by Winston Tharp
Frederick Irving Anderson
Frederick Irving Anderson was a New York newspaperman who had a second career writing mystery stories for the "slick" magazines su…
The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wi…
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
William Le Queux
A mysterious burgary of the British Consulate at Leghorn, coupled with the even more mysterious visit of an English yacht, leads to a trail …
The Heart of a Mystery
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade
The Heart of Mystery by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace was published in 1901 in six installments in the Windsor Magazine, Vol. 14. The stori…
The Bartlett Mystery
Read by Kirsten Wever
Louis Tracy
This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no che…