Detective Fiction
The Cat Saw Murder
Read by Mark Nelson
Dolores Hitchens
Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew has been heard to complain that the murder of the Sticklemann woman was the damnedest case that he ever …
Captain Sparkle, Pirate
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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 …
The Step on the Stair
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Anna Katharine Green
Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…
Danger at the Drawbridge
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…
The Dain Curse
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A supposed family curse. Stolen diamonds. Drugs and a religious cult. The Continental Op has his hands full while again the bodies pile up a…
Snarled Identities
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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 …
A Woman at Bay
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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 …
The Steel Hammer
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Louis Ulbach
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …
The Double
Read by Atul Sharma
Edgar Wallace
When Dick Staines graduated the University of Cambridge without family connections or inherited wealth, he decides to put his honours scienc…
A Scandal in Bohemia
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…
The Twin Mystery
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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 …
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
The Mask of Death
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Nicholas Carter
America's greatest detective is back! "Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He’ll ferret out the truth and…
The Snarl of the Beast
Read by Ben Tucker
Carroll John Daly
Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled cr…
The Secret of Father Brown (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
A new series of adventures and mysteries solved by the skill and quick wit of Father Brown, the one detective in English fiction who can com…
Over My Dead Body
Read by Ben Tucker
Rex Stout
It all began one day when two beautiful "females" as Archie called them, arrived in Nero Wolfe's. office with a problem Wolfe didn…
Under the Tiger's Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)
Read by Paul Hampton
Nicholas Carter
A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared. [Summary by Paul H…
The Cry at Midnight
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monas…
Red Harvest
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Detective Agency’s Op is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town “Poisonville,” and the Op would soon find…