Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Green Mummy
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Fergus Hume
An eccentric Professor's quest for a green mummy leads him and his acquaintances to a murder and a bizarre adventure - Summary by Yoganandh …
Knock Three-One-Two
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Fredric Brown
A serial killer is on the loose and is thirsting for another kill. Meanwhile sad sack loser Ray Fleck, compulsive gambler, has racked up a …
The Quest for the Rose of Sharon
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened…
The Ponson Case
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Where is Sir William? His butler and valet are concerned. He disappeared after dinner and is late retiring to bed. Did Sir William walk over…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 4)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson sits down again to ruminate over his notes of all the mysteries he has joined Sherlock Holmes in investigating. In the “Memoirs o…
The Silk Stocking Murders
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Anthony Berkeley
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father…
The Bat (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
A Mysterious killer—Man? Beast? Or devil?—spreading terror throughout a nation, flouting law and lawless alike … Curious GOINGS-ON in a hous…
Murder Mistress
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Robert Colby
Scott Daniels is a washed up showbiz announcer who hit the bottle a few too many times and blew his big chance. But he starts to think his l…
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)
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James Hogg
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …
The House Without a Key (Version 2)
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Earl Derr Biggers
In this murder mystery, the main character is the victim’s nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to tr…
Nelly Channell
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Sarah Doudney
Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin He…
Nightmare
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Cornell Woolrich
Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …
Owen Clancy's Run Of Luck
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Burt L. Standish
Owen Clancy befriends a lad he saves from peril. He and his friend foil a nefarious plot. - Summary by Howard Skyman
Paved With Gold
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Augustus Mayhew
The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life" (from the preface). Thus, this b…
The Devil-Ray
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Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.
George Ferris is a master thief with amnesia. He and his two partners in crime concoct a plan to break into the famed Castle Blennerhof in a…
The House on the Cliff (Version 3)
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Franklin W. Dixon
In this early Hardy Boys book (the second to be published), the boys journey to a haunted house where a murder took place, and upon entering…
David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
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Julian Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…
The After House
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, b…
The Mystery of Angelina Frood
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R. Austin Freeman
Angelina Frood disappears from Rochester ostensibly to escape her uncouth and menacing husband Nicholas Frood leaving a trail of clues which…