Mystery & Thriller

The Club of Queer Trades

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Barnes 4.5
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…

Cleek of Scotland Yard

by Thomas W. Hanshew Read by Ruth Golding 4.8
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …

Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.7
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

The Window at the White Cat

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Robert Keiper 4.6
When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skill…

The Mystery of Mary

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.5
Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…

The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries

by L. T. Meade Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Ro…

The Silent Bullet

by Arthur B. Reeve Read by Elliott Miller 4.6
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…

The Crevice

by William J. Burns Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of…

Cleek

by Thomas W. Hanshew Read by Ruth Golding 4.8
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…

The Wisdom of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Martin Clifton 4.6
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a s…

The Poisoned Pen

by Arthur B. Reeve Read by Elliott Miller 4.6
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…

The Wishing Well

by Mildred A. Wirt Benson Read by Cheryl Adam 4.7
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…

That Affair Next Door

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Dawn Larsen 4.5
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.9
This is the second book of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning the adventures of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his…

The Silent Barrier

by Louis Tracy Read by Mary Herndon Bell 4.5
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Old Man in the Corner

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…

The Holladay Case

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in…

The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …

The Red House Mystery

by A. A. Milne Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.5
Antony Gillingham arrives at the Red House moments after a gunshot is heard. The room is locked, the murderer has disappeared and, in Antony…

Lost Man's Lane

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

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