Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Datchet Diamonds

Read by Jacquerie


Richard Marsh


Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambl…

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 …

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…

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 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

Read by Sibella Denton


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 Sealed Message

Read by Celine Major


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 Woman of Mystery

Read by Jacquerie


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…

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…

In the Bishop's Carriage

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


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…

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…

Stolen Idols

Read by Jacquerie


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…

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…

Mad Barbara

Read by Lynne T


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

Read by KHand


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…

Vicky Van

Read by Celine Major


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, …

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 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 Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


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…

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