Crime & Mystery Fiction
Historical Mysteries
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Andrew Lang
Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.
Lady Jim of Curzon Street
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Fergus Hume
Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …
The Masquerader
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Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
The Datchet Diamonds
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Richard Marsh
Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambl…
Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre
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Friedrich Schiller
Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre – eine wahre Geschichte ist ein Kriminalbericht Friedrich Schillers, der 1786 zunächst unter dem Tit…
The Golden Silence
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Charles Norris Williamson
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his …
Doctor Nikola Returns
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Guy Boothby
Guy Boothby’s character Doctor Antonio Nikola was one of the first great diabolical criminal masterminds. He was a Victorian forerunner to F…
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
The Sealed Message
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious message on a record is found sealed in a cylinder. A heroine straight out of a fairy-tale is kept secluded by a guardian with q…
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
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J. S. Fletcher
A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…
The Evil Shepherd
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows,…
It Happened in Egypt
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Charles Norris Williamson
Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret - a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetra…
The Woman of Mystery
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Maurice Leblanc
In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate broo…
In the Bishop's Carriage
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Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
The Other Side of the Door
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Lucia Chamberlain
It's 1865 in the city of San Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with s…
Stolen Idols
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the su…
A Bullet for Cinderella
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John D Macdonald and John Dann Macdonald
HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ...But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.I watc…
Mad Barbara
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Warwick Deeping
It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young woman discovers the body of her murdered father. In her grief, she tries to mak…
Vicky Van
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Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells always provides an enjoyable read and this one is probably one of her most intriguing murder mysteries. Vicky Van is a lithe, …
The Pit Prop Syndicate
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follo…