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The Middle of Things
Read by Nathalie J.
J. S. Fletcher
A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, a…
Diana
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Warner
Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The Moonstone (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
Wilkie Collins
Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleigh…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
EDYL - The Reading Department
Read by Mark Capell
Mark Capell
It's 2046 and Jake Radley has the career opportunity of a lifetime. But to take it he needs to acquire a strange, mysterious new skill. A s…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
An American Tragedy, Volume 2
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Theodore Dreiser
The saga of Clyde, Roberta, and Sondra continues in volume 2 of 2. Social-climbing Clyde Griffiths wants nothing more than to marry the weal…
The Crimson Thread
Read by Keith Salis
Roy J. Snell
Lucile has a job in a department store book department for the holiday season before she returns to college for the next term. What could ha…
Capitol Coven
Read by Peter E. Abresch
Peter E. Abresch
Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…
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 …
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
A Fiend in Need
Read by Ben Tucker
Milton K. Ozaki
There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plu…
The Amethyst Box
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of dea…
The Spoils of Poynton
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …
There and Back
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George MacDonald
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …
Ben Hecht Spellbound
Spellbound Dramatised by Amanda Dalton from the Alfred Hitchcock film script by Ben Hecht and the original book by Francis Beeding. C…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
J. Poindexter, Colored
Read by Grant Hurlock
Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
The Square Emerald
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edgar Wallace
What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…