reader:"John Wheater, Alan Barr and Henry Snaith"

The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley an…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, sca…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Read by John W. Michaels

George Washington Plunkitt

"I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.", George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart (version 2)

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of …

Living With Capone

Read by John R. Swift

John R. Swift

A fortunate son and failed lawyer turned failed banker turned struggling stockbroker inexplicably marries well, crosses paths with Al Capone…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series…

Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragm…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

This 2nd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances continues the intrigues of "Balsamo, The Magician" and adds to them the schemes o…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real sca…

Under the Stairs

Read by John G. Stockmyer

John G. Stockmyer

John Lyon, historian, new homeowner, stumbled through a gateway into an alternate reality under the stairs of his old house. And. . . here…

The Chicago Connection

Read by John R. Swift

John R. Swift

A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …

Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

Read by John Van Stan

Alexandre Dumas

This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…

A Christmas Carol (Version 14)

Read by Peter John Keeble

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan

Friedrich Nietzsche

These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…

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