Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Watchers
Read by Jacquerie
A. E. W. Mason
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to …
The Lost House
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
A House to Let
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Short Mystery Story Collection 003
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Various
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
Short Mystery Story Collection 005
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
The Sorceress of the Strand
Read by J. M. Smallheer
L. T. Meade
From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…
The Forsaken Inn
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Anna Katharine Green
Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, "The Forsaken In…
The House of a Thousand Candles
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Meredith Nicholson
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…
The Ghost Breaker (Dramatic Reading)
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Charles Goddard
The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a scr…
Short Mystery Story Collection 001
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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 Big Time
Read by Karen Savage
Fritz Leiber
A classic locked room mystery, in a not-so-classic setting. (Intro by Karen Savage)
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…
The Holladay Case
Read by Cate Barratt
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in…
The Valley of Silent Men
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decid…
The Bishop's Secret
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Deep Lake Mystery
Read by Roger Melin
Carolyn Wells
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …
Hand and Ring
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Anna Katharine Green
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…
The Fortieth Door
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Mary Hastings Bradley
A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…
The Midnight Queen
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May Agnes Fleming
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…
The Trees of Pride
Read by Maria Therese
G. K. Chesterton
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as…