Detective Fiction
The Step on the Stair
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Anna Katharine Green
Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…
A Woman at Bay
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Steel Hammer
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Louis Ulbach
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…
Snarled Identities
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Danger at the Drawbridge
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …
The Twin Mystery
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
A Scandal in Bohemia
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…
The Dain Curse
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A supposed family curse. Stolen diamonds. Drugs and a religious cult. The Continental Op has his hands full while again the bodies pile up a…
The Mask of Death
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Nicholas Carter
America's greatest detective is back! "Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He’ll ferret out the truth and…
The Double
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Edgar Wallace
When Dick Staines graduated the University of Cambridge without family connections or inherited wealth, he decides to put his honours scienc…
Grave Danger
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell cleans up the crime-ridden New York water front by making a dope charge stick against the head of the "organization"…