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The Clue
Read by Roger Melin
Carolyn Wells
Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mys…
Some Famous Women
Read by Pamela Nagami
Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter, Volume One
Read by Anne Fletcher
Rachel Hunter
The extended title of these volumes is 'Inculcating Morality by Entertaining Narratives”, and in the preface the Author indicates she offere…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Doctor Izard
Read by Lee Smalley
Anna Katharine Green
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
The Bent Twig
Read by Bellona Times
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…
Mother
Read by Megan Kunkel
Kathleen Norris
With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. A…
A Strange Disappearance (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Anna Katharine Green
Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…
The Enemies of Books
Read by Maria Kasper
William Blades
The author, an avid book collector, calls for the better protection of books against the "enemies" which lead to their physical de…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47
Read by Phil Benson
Geraldine Jewsbury
'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…
The Maxwell Mystery
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Carolyn Wells
An early murder mystery by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, and the first one to feature her famous detective, Fleming Stone.A gr…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079
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Various
"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England …
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
Lady Susan (version 2)
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Poor Miss Finch
Read by Sandra G
Wilkie Collins
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…
Murder Takes the Veil
Read by Maria Therese
Margaret Ann Hubbard
Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a mur…
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
Read by tabithat
Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry
Read by Sandra Cullum
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…