Detective Fiction
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…
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…
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 …
Against Odds
Read by Lynne T
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.…
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…
Guy Garrick
Read by Howard Skyman
Arthur B. Reeve
Private detective Guy Garrick is at the dawning age of modern criminal forensics in the early twentieth century. He and his friend and assis…
Inspector French's Greatest Case
Read by Yoganandh T
Freeman Wills Crofts
Inspector French of Scotland Yard follows the clues of a Hatton Garden murder-heist case leading him far and wide both in Britain and in the…
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…
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…
Clara Vaughan, Vol I.
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …
The House on the Cliff
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
The second of The Hardy Boys' series, The House on the Cliff involves Frank and Joe, along with their father, the famous detective, in the i…
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…
Clouds Cover the Campus
Read by Maria Therese
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…
Weapons of Mystery
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Joseph Hocking
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Ar…
The Rebel Rose
Read by Deanna Bovee
Justin Mccarthy
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…