Political & Thrillers

The Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading)

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Baroness Emma Orczy


Baroness Emma ("Emmuska") Orczy (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungaria…

The Power-House

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John Buchan


The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's …

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

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Various


In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England w…

The Double Traitor

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continue…

El secreto del ahorcado

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Charles Dickens


Cuento largo o novela breve de intriga y suspense escrita por Charles Dickens. El inicio es ya prometedor: No hace al caso referir la manera…

Greenmantle (Version 2)

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John Buchan


Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

Anthem (Version 4)

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Ayn Rand


Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a wo…

The Devil's Paw

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


A beautiful, intelligent young woman – is she a traitorous spy or a patriot? An aristocratic soldier permanently injured during the war – is…

The Red and the Black, Volume I

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

The Moneychangers

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Upton Sinclair


A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…

The Pawns Count

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted."I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti,…

On Secret Service

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William Nelson Taft


Detective-Mystery stories based on real cases solved by government agents. Created initially in 1865, the U.S. Secret Service continued to e…

Supermind

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Laurence M. Janifer


FBI agent Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as …

The Machine

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Upton Sinclair


Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…

The Vanished Messenger

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


E. Phillips Oppenheim


A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…

Havoc

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between …

Brain Twister

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Laurence M. Janifer


"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

Phineas Finn the Irish Member

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Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…

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