Detective Fiction
Whose Body?
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just …
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
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Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
The Window at the White Cat
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
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 the Hidden Room
Read by Roger Melin
Christopher Harvey and Marion Harvey
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a my…
The Leavenworth Case
Read by Kirsten Ferreri
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, …
The Old Man in the Corner
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Baroness Emma Orczy
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 Lost House
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Richard Harding Davis
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
The Club of Queer Trades
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…
The Circular Study
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Anna Katharine Green
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
The Seven Secrets
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd i…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with M…
Huntingtower
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John Buchan
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…
The King in Yellow (part 1)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…
The Man in Lower Ten
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKn…
The Poisoned Pen
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Arthur B. Reeve
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…
The Riddle of the Sands
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Erskine Childers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
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Thomas W. Hanshew
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 Bat
Read by Alan Winterrowd
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The novelization of the play of the same name that had an initial run of 867 shows on Broadway and has been performed all over the world and…
The Valley of Fear (Version 2)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth…