Detective Fiction
For Fifteen Years
Read by Deanna Bovee
Louis Ulbach
For Fifteen Years by Louis Ulbach is the sequel to The Steel Hammer which tells the story of a poor upholsterer, Jean Mortier who is falsely…
The Missing Chums
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American dectective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. Th…
The Dain Curse
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A supposed family curse. Stolen diamonds. Drugs and a religious cult. The Continental Op has his hands full while again the bodies pile up a…
A Sharper's Downfall; Or, Into the Net
Read by Paul Hampton
Nicholas Carter
Bigamy, blackmail, damsels in distress, gambling and kidnapping--this story has it all, plus Nick Carter and his crew in hot pursuit of the …
The Cask
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Though he went on to write dozens of other novels over an almost 40-year career, his debut work--this 1920 detective mystery--is considered …
File No. 113
Read by Celine Major
Émile Gaboriau
As the story opens the impregnable safe of the Fauvel bank is robbed of 350,000 francs. As the only keyholders are Andre Fauvel the owner an…
The Secret of Father Brown (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
A new series of adventures and mysteries solved by the skill and quick wit of Father Brown, the one detective in English fiction who can com…
The Millionaire Mystery
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Fergus Hume
A racy tale of a disappearing corpse, an eloquent tramp, a beautiful heiress and the intricacies of a shady millionaire's life - Summary by …
Bullet Proof
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell, the fast-moving New York private eye, is hired to investigate a murder which everyone but the client calls a suicide. The cl…
Old Broadbrim into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequ…
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St. George Henry Rathborne
Old Broadbrim, the famous Quaker detective listened as one of the richest men in New York continued "......I want you to guard my perso…
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel
Read by Adrienne Prevost
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so…