Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Dead Alive
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Wilkie Collins
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…
The Notting Hill Mystery
Read by Kevin Green
Charles Warren Adams
Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "T…
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Read by Anna Simon
Frank L. Packard
In the previous book of adventures, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a…
The Woman in White - version 2
Read by Tony Addison
Wilkie Collins
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…
Dead Men's Shoes
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…
The Angel of Terror (version 2)
Read by Allyson Hester
Edgar Wallace
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new …
Whither Thou Goest
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her again…
The de Bercy Affair
Read by Lee Smalley
Louis Tracy
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…
The Wanderer
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Frances Burney
This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why di…
The Riddle Ring
Read by Ruth Golding
Justin Mccarthy
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a vi…
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service
Read by David Wales
Laurence Clarke
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…
The Heath Hover Mystery
Read by Roger Melin
Bertram Mitford
A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a…
Arsène Lupin
Read by Leni
Maurice Leblanc
This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated …
The Red Window
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Fergus Hume
Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has i…
Rough Justice
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were ther…
The Clock Struck One
Read by Celine Major
Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Ju…
Plague of Pythons
Read by Nick Bulka
Frederik Pohl
In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…
The Golden Web
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …
Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery
Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Andy Adams
Adventure series in exotic locations. This adventure is set in the exotic Island of Hawaii and involves the search for a missing sloop and …
The Secret Mark
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Roy J. Snell
Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, whil…