Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Markenmore Mystery
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J. S. Fletcher
After seven years of silence, Guy Markenmore returns to his family home at Markenmore Court. Knowing his father Sir Anthony to be close to d…
Clouds of Witness
Read by Kirsten Wever
Dorothy L. Sayers
While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their siste…
The Amateur
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Richard Harding Davis
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
The Sacred Herb
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Fergus Hume
A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by h…
Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries
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Melville Davisson Post
Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…
Melmoth The Wanderer
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Charles Robert Maturin
One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…
Nancy Brandon's Mystery
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Lilian C. Garis
Nancy spends the summer with a cousin she hardly knows who has a friend who seems to be a bad influence.Secrets, jealousy and bitterness fil…
Wylder's Hand
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people invo…
Exterior to the Evidence
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J. S. Fletcher
"Exterior to the Evidence" is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and …
The Avalanche
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Gertrude Atherton
Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him on…
Unravelled Knots
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Unravelled Knots is the third and final installment of the Old Man in the Corner stories by Baroness Orczy. After a break of several years,…
The Four-Pools Mystery
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Jean Webster
In The Four Pools Mystery the tyrannical plantation owner is deemed responsible for his own murder because of his mistreatment of the former…
The Tickencote Treasure
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William Le Queux
Paul Pickering is a doctor without a fixed practice, and when an old sea captain asks him to join a voyage around the Mediterranean, that's …
The Count's Chauffeur
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William Le Queux
When car-crazy George Ewart accepts employment as chauffeur to Count Bindo di Ferraris, an Italian aristocrat, he has no idea what he has ju…
The Girl From Malta
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Fergus Hume
One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel "Neptune" steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australia…
The Red Lamp
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
William A. Porter, professor of English, inherits a large seaside house from his Uncle Horace. He is not fully satisfied with the explanatio…
Mrs. Balfame
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Gertrude Atherton
Enid Belfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman; eminently respectable; founder of The Friday Club; small town dignitary; a parago…
Faulkner's Folly
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Carolyn Wells
Eric Stannard, wealthy artist and portrait painter of international reputation is found dead in his studio, an etching needle protruding fro…
The Interrupted Kiss
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Richard Marsh
Clare awakens in the middle of the night with no idea why. Her husband is not in his bed and as she goes in search of him she runs into her …