Crime & Mystery Fiction
The House on the Downs
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Gladys Edson Locke
Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…
Emma
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Charlotte Brontë
Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daug…
The Sign at Six
Read by Tom Penn
Stewart Edward White
It started out as a nuisance--odd electrical problems in the Atlas building that cleared themselves up. But then it got worse, the problems …
Red Masquerade
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Louis Joseph Vance
In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone Wolf, the most talented thief of his day, made the acquaintance of the beauti…
Una comida en casa de Rossini
Read by Carlos Lombardi
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas concurre a una cena en casa de Rossini el célebre compositor y gran chef italiano. En esa cena se encuentra con otros destacado…
The Trial of Callista Blake
Read by Roger Melin
Edgar Pangborn
In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and t…
The Red Hand
Read by Wanda White
Arthur Machen
Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by…
The String of Pearls
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Unknown
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett…
The Great Pearl Secret
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Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the b…
One Life, One Love
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
The Yellow Claw
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Sax Rohmer
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…
The Technique of the Mystery Story
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Carolyn Wells
For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…
Dope
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Sax Rohmer
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
Thou Art The Man
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sibyl married after assuming that her cousin, with whom she was in love, died. However, said cousin, who suffers from epilepsy, found himsel…
Yollop
Read by Barry Eads
George Barr Mccutcheon
Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to…
The Delafield Affair
Read by Bill Boerst
Florence Finch Kelly
New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. …
Boston Blackie
Read by Winston Tharp
Jack Boyle
Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became d…
The Goddess
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Richard Marsh
After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown at…
Moon-Face
Read by Ben Tucker
Jack London
Well-known and well-regarded author Jack London, known for adventurous stories of the outdoors such as Call of the Wild and White Fang shows…