Detective Fiction

Five Continental Op Stories

Read by Winston Tharp


Dashiell Hammett


Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Con…

The Broken Rosary

Read by Maria Therese


Grace Johnson and Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson


County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the o…

The Agony Column

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Earl Derr Biggers


English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…

The Curved Blades

Read by Celine Major


Carolyn Wells


In this suspensful whodunit a mean-spirited and wealthy dowager is found murdered in her boudoir supposedly killed once by poison and also b…

The Blue Envelope

Read by Dawn Larsen


Roy J. Snell


A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

The Beetle

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Richard Marsh


A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…

Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

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Thomas Peckett Prest


Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…

La caja de amatista

Read by Victor Villarraza


Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green es considerada la madre de la novela de detectives. Fue una escritora admirada por autores de su tiempo como Wilkie Col…

The String of Pearls

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The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…

32 Caliber

Read by Dawn Larsen


Donald Mcgibeny


A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murd…

A Master Hand

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Richard Dallas


This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883…

The Black Eagle Mystery

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Geraldine Bonner


A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective - Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express

Read by Sibella Denton


A. Frank Pinkerton


Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial m…

The Green Rust (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edgar Wallace


Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…

The Case of Miss Elliott

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…

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 Eight Strokes of the Clock (Version 2)

Read by Cate Barratt


Maurice Leblanc


The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of short stories centred on Arsène Lupin, former gentleman thief extraordinaire. In th…

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…

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…

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