Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Other House
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Henry James
A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-kni…
An American Tragedy, Volume 1
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Theodore Dreiser
Loosely based on a true story, this is the tale of Clyde Griffiths. At a young age, Clyde realizes that money and influence can get him the …
The Terriford Mystery
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Terriford Mystery is a 1924 novel by prolific English author, Marie Belloc Lowndes. The story revolves around handsome Harry Garlett an…
A Network of Crime
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Tales of Mystery and Horror
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Maurice Level
Maurice Level was a French writer of supremely twisted and macabre fiction with demented plotting and gruesome violence reminiscent of Edgar…
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story
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Reginald Wright Kauffman
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …
Outside the Prison
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Richard Harding Davis
On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. …
Recalled to Life
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Grant Allen
A woman is haunted by a terrible event she witnessed in her youth but is unable to make sense of -- a murder, the sight of which is so traum…
The Willow Walk
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Sinclair Lewis
As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually lo…
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
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Louis Tracy
At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …
The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story
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S. S. Van Dine
The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S.…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
The Red House Mystery (Version 2)
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A. A. Milne
Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…
Double Crossed
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Wilfrid Douglas Newton
Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he …
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)
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Librivox Volunteers
An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…
The Shadow of a Man
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E. W. Hornung
Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter …
Silver Blaze
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…
The Square Emerald
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Edgar Wallace
What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…
Coffee Break Collection 016 - Crime
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Various
This is the sixteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minut…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges
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Alexandre Dumas
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series…