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1-6 Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do

Read by David Clarke


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In A Study In Scarlet (Version 6)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detectiv…

Chapter 7

Read by Kalynda


Tobias Smollett


In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and …

CHAPTER 5. MRS. WALKER'S OPINION

Read by Courtney Miller


Fergus Hume


In The Amethyst Cross

Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Sp…

Read by Aaron White


Edwin Abbott Abbott


In Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…

19 - SALLIE HICKS'S FOREFINGER

Read by Jannie Meisberger


Abbie Phillips Walker


In Sandman's Goodnight Stories

Have you every read a bed time story to a child? Or had one read to you? Fun, isn't it? These 28 delightful, short, well written and whimsic…

Fifteen

Read by JB Baxter


Edward Everett Evans


In The Planet Mappers

The Carver family are out in space, travelling to new worlds to check them out for colonization. But, when Mr. Carver has an accident, and …

The Ribble

Read by Anya


James Hebblethwaite


In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite

James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …

General Passavant's Will, Part I

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Grant Allen


In Stories in Black and White

This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

Chapter II. Sue Harvey

Read by Ben Tucker


Martin M. Goldsmith


In Detour

Alexander Roth is a jazz fiddle player who can't quite seem to catch a break after losing his job and having his best girl Sue leave him to …

Chapter IX: Problems

Read by Ben Tucker


Margery Williams


In The Thing in the Woods

Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a supers…

His New Mittens

Read by Ben Tucker


Stephen Crane


In The Monster and Other Stories

From the celebrated author of the Red Badge of Courage comes this final collection of stories released in Crane's lifetime. These stories of…

Roscoe

Read by Greg Giordano


Washington Irving


In Washington Irving's Visit to England

Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. T…

Chapter 24

Read by Ben Tucker


Robert Sheckley


In Dead Run

THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF THE ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD WERE BAFFLED, HELPLESS. THE WORD WENT OUT: "CALL STEPHEN DAIN!" In broad day…

Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


In Heroines of Fiction

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Unraveling a Clue

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Andrew H. Walpole


In The Black Star: A School Story for Boys

A school adventure set in Australia, with secret societies, bullies, mystery, a new student who calls everyone comrade, and sport, at least …

Chapter 3

Read by Jim Locke


Talbot Baines Reed


In Cock-House at Fellsgarth

A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von