Detective Fiction
Five Continental Op Stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Con…
Basil
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Wilkie Collins
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…
Stories from The Detective's Album
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Mary Fortune
Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the na…
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)
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Baroness Emma Orczy
In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republi…
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
In the Fog
Read by Bob Gonzalez
Richard Harding Davis
The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of …
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
Read by Andy Harrington
Maurice Leblanc
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from th…
Revenge!
Read by Roger Melin
Robert Barr
A collection of 20 short stories of the crime, detective, and thriller variety, sharing a common theme of .... you guessed it, revenge, and …
The Diamond Cross Mystery
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Chester K. Steele
Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stol…
Murder in the Sacristy
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer.…
The Curved Blades
Read by Celine Major
Carolyn Wells
In this suspensful whodunit a mean-spirited and wealthy dowager is found murdered in her boudoir supposedly killed once by poison and also b…
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
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John Charles Dent
John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated …
The Broken Rosary
Read by Maria Therese
Grace Johnson, Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson and Grace Johnson And Harold Johnson
County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the o…
The Case of Miss Elliott
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
The Beetle
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Richard Marsh
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…
32 Caliber
Read by Dawn Larsen
Donald Mcgibeny
A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murd…
The Blue Envelope
Read by Dawn Larsen
Roy J. Snell
A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.
The Agony Column
Read by peac
Earl Derr Biggers
English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…
The Black Eagle Mystery
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Geraldine Bonner
A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…
The Green Rust (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…