Detective Fiction
Under the Tiger's Claws
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral
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Ronald Knox
If it was murder, how did the murderer get through a door and leave it locked on the inside? If suicide, how did the dead man turn off the g…
The Thirteenth Letter
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
This classic murder mystery begins in a hospital and ends in a passionate embrace. What happens in between will intrigue and entertain lover…
The Three Just Men
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Edgar Wallace
It is early twentieth century England and all is not well. Innocent citizens are found murdered by an apparent snake bite accredited to a di…
Guilt of the Brass Thieves
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …
The Meredith Mystery
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
The Tower Treasure (Version 4)
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Franklin W. Dixon
A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…
A Study in Scarlet (Version 8)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This exciting story is the first of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels and stories and the beginning of the famed duo with Dr. Watson who …
The Moon Rock
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Arthur J. Rees
Robert Turold has a monomania - An English title which had fallen into abeyance hundreds of years ago. Just when he was about to stake his c…
The Nameless Man
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between California and…
The Murders in Praed Street
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John Street
A series of murders occur in Praed Street of London and the eccentric scientist Dr Priestly sees the connection in them. Only to discover th…
The Clue of the New Pin
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Edgar Wallace
A rich man is murdered in a seemingly impossible way. Journalist Tab Holland and Inspector Carver have only the clue of the new pin lying in…
The Sign of the Four (Version 5)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the second of the novels chronicling the adventures of the great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, a strange mystery is afoot as a y…
Prince Zaleski
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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel
Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual detective in Prince Zaleski in his first published book. Ensconced within his orn…
The Shadow Of The Wolf
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R. Austin Freeman
Here we have another in the series of novels written by R. Austin Freeman featuring the character of Dr. John Thorndyke. The good doctor is …
Faded Pictures
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William Vaughn Moody
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2…
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of short adventure stories following Horne and his friend. - Summary by Victoria Bell
The Curse of the Reckaviles
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Walter S. Masterman
An English peer is found stabbed in his room with more than a hint of the supernatural playing a hand. This is only reinforced by the curse …
Case Pending
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Elizabeth Linington
A girl found dead in an empty lot, beaten with an eye gouged out... Lieutenant Mendoza feels like there must be a connection between this vi…
Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective
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Andrew Forrester
This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …