Detective Fiction

The Loot Of Cities

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Arnold Bennett


Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…

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…

The Reaper And The Flowers

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry pro…

The Dream Doctor

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Arthur B. Reeve


The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific …

The Secret of Father Brown

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G. K. Chesterton


This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…

The Trial of Callista Blake

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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 Woman in the Alcove (Version 2)

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Anna Katharine Green


Rita Van Arsdale falls in love and is proposed to by the gentleman Mr. Durand during a fancy high society party. She has landed the man of h…

Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

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Grant Allen


"In this early detective novel, the detective is Hilda Wade. She is a very capable nurse, but there is something mysterious about her f…

Against Odds

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Lawrence L. Lynch


Believed to have been written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, this detective story set at the World's Fair follows Carl Mas…

Madame Midas

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Fergus Hume


Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand.…

Smugglers' Reef

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Harold L. Goodwin


Seventh entry in the Rick Brant Science Mystery Adventure series has Rick and buddy Scott using infrared technology on the trail of smugglin…

Alias Miss Sherlock

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Arthur Lewis Tubbs


Dick Brewster is implicated in a murder and comes to his aunt's farm to hide. His Aunt Sarah stands by him in his need and they all move to …

Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

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Ellis Parker Butler


Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To…

Hidden Foes

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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 Lost Stradivarius

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John Meade Falkner


The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…

Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many …

Clouds Cover the Campus

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Daniel A. Lord


On an American college campus, in the early years of World War II, a professor from Germany is murdered and the plans for a new bomb sight h…

The Exploits of Juve

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Marcel Allain


Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…

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