Detective Fiction
Lanagan Amateur Detective
Read by David Wales
Edward H. Hurlbut
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
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Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well - what with fishing, playing with…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3
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Thomas Peckett Prest
This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…
The Case Of The Registered Letter
Read by David Wales
Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner
A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
The Diamond Master
Read by Dawn Larsen
Jacques Futrelle
A perfect diamond worth millions is mailed, in a plain package, to a diamond dealer. Then he finds that identical diamonds were delivered to…
The Masquerader
Read by Tom Weiss
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,…
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola m…
Bulldog Drummond
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Sapper
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. A…
R. Holmes and Co.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffle…
The Three Hostages
Read by Kimberly Krause
John Buchan
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond fe…
La hermandad de los siete reyes
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L. T. Meade
El señor Norman Head es un gentleman cuya desahogada posición le permite dedicar todo su tiempo a sus investigaciones cient&ia…
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 …
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1
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Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des d&…
De Agra-Schat
Read by Peter Zinn
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Het verhaal speelt zich af in 1887 of 1888, en draait deels om de Oost-Indische Compagnie en de Muiterij van Sepoy.Sherlock Holmes en Dr. Wa…
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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E. W. Hornung
Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, …
The Ashiel Mystery - A Detective Story
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Mrs. Charles Bryce
Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Dete…