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Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

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Ambrose Bierce


At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big S…

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Sam R. Watkins


Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today f…

Boston Blackie

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Jack Boyle


Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, …

Five Continental Op Stories

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Dashiell Hammett


Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Con…

A Bullet for Cinderella

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John D 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 …

Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl

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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 Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories

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Dashiell Hammett


Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…

Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries

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Melville Davisson Post


Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…

Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

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Jack Boyle


Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became d…

Gullible's Travels, Etc.

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Ring Lardner


Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp

Zigzags of Treachery and other stories

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Dashiell Hammett


The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wi…

Lion Loose

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James H. Schmitz


The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest—but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may c…

The Gutting of Couffignal

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Dashiell Hammett


Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled detective is assigned by his agency to guard a stash of wedding presents on an exclusive Bay Area island. Jus…

The Early Poems of Hart Crane

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Hart Crane


A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double De…

Cobwebs

In Short Poetry Collection 129

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Christina Rossetti


This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014.

Ask a Foolish Question

In Short Science Fiction Collection 042

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Robert Sheckley


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Mistletoe

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2010

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Walter de la Mare and Walter De la Mare


This multilingual Christmas Short Works Collection for 2010 contains public domain short stories, essays, poems and scripture passages recor…