Detective Fiction

Weapons of Mystery

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Joseph Hocking



Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…

The Rebel Rose

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Justin Mccarthy



The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…

The Rome Express

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Arthur Griffiths



The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. On…

A Flurry in Diamonds

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Thomas E. Price



The diamonds are gone--vanished! But who could have taken them? And how? With each plot twist author Thomas E. Price (writing as Amos Chiptr…

The Secret of the Old Mill

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Franklin W. Dixon



The Secret of the Old Mill is the third volume of the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syn…

Graustark

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George Barr Mccutcheon



The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda,…

The D'Arblay Mystery

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R. Austin Freeman



Stephen Gray is a recent graduate of medicine. As he is walking through a sleepy English village he stumbles upon a tragedy involving a beau…

Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley



Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a w…

Anybody But Anne

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Carolyn Wells



Narrated in the first person by Raymond Sturgis, Anne's old high-school beau, the story opens with a lavish house party hosted by the Van Wy…

The Second Latchkey

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Charles Norris Williamson



Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century.…

The Clue of the Gold Coin

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Helen Wells



Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Ba…

The Open Door and The Portrait

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Margaret O. Oliphant



Two stories "of the seen and unseen" with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary b…

A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, …

The Social Gangster

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Arthur B. Reeve



This is a collection of 12 detective short stories by American fiction writer Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936). What makes these stories so inter…

A Fair Mystery

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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame



(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home t…

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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Dorothy L. Sayers



The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

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Émile Gaboriau



Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the ol…

The Door with Seven Locks

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Edgar Wallace



Dick Martin is on his last day on the job at Scotland Yard, having planned to retire early due to an inheritance windfall, when he becomes e…

Out of Death's Shadow

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Nicholas Carter



Nick Carter is a fictional private detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking …

That Affair at Elizabeth (version 2)

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Burton Egbert Stevenson



A bride-to-be vanishes and mystery is born. Before it is solved, its pursuers uncover madness, treachery, and a grave in a cellar. Summary …

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