Detective Fiction
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with M…
The Man in Lower Ten
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKn…
The Poisoned Pen
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Arthur B. Reeve
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…
The Riddle of the Sands
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Erskine Childers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…
Cleek
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…
The Bat
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The novelization of the play of the same name that had an initial run of 867 shows on Broadway and has been performed all over the world and…
The House of the Whispering Pines
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Anna Katharine Green
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator s…
Cleek of Scotland Yard
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …
The Valley of Fear
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth…
A Silent Witness
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R. Austin Freeman
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…
At the Villa Rose
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…
The Grand Babylon Hotel
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Arnold Bennett
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …
Bat Wing
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Sax Rohmer
Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The fir…
Missing: Page Thirteen
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Anna Katharine Green
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The future…
Short Mystery Story Collection
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P. G. Wodehouse
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherl…
Greenmantle
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John Buchan
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…
Lost Man's Lane
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Anna Katharine Green
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…
Dangerous Days
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…
The Case of Jennie Brice
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a m…