Detective Fiction
The Snarl of the Beast
Read by Ben Tucker
Carroll John Daly
Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled cr…
The Cry at Midnight
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monas…
Over My Dead Body
Read by Ben Tucker
Rex Stout
It all began one day when two beautiful "females" as Archie called them, arrived in Nero Wolfe's. office with a problem Wolfe didn…
Under the Tiger's Claws
Read by Paul Hampton
Nicholas Carter
A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared. [Summary by Paul H…
The Secret of Father Brown
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G. K. Chesterton
A new series of adventures and mysteries solved by the skill and quick wit of Father Brown, the one detective in English fiction who can com…
Bullet Proof
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell, the fast-moving New York private eye, is hired to investigate a murder which everyone but the client calls a suicide. The cl…
A Fiend in Need
Read by Ben Tucker
Milton K. Ozaki
There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plu…
The Missing Chums
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American dectective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. Th…
Gold of the Gods
Read by Vineymala
Arthur B. Reeve
Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoever, divulged the wher…
Voice From the Cave
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by a mysterious woman and end up engrossed in a hunt for foreign spies! (Summary by A…
The Mystery of the Fires
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
The Maltese Falcon
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A beautiful client, a valuable artifact, fake identities, double-crosses and dead bodies. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective Sam Spade has …
Clara Vaughan
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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 Mystery at Lovers' Cave
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Anthony Berkeley
Roger and his cousin Anthony are ready to head out on vacation, when a phone call from Scotland Yard sends the duo scuttling down to Hampshi…