Detective Fiction

The Woman in the Alcove

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Anna Katharine Green


"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…

Sister Simon's Murder Case

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Margaret Ann Hubbard


Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the mur…

Murder Takes the Veil

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Margaret Ann Hubbard


Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a mur…

The Pawns Count

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted."I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti,…

The Daffodil Mystery

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Edgar Wallace


Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 17…

The Midnight Passenger

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Richard Henry Savage


Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hug…

The Sword of Damocles

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…

The Abandoned Room

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Wadsworth Camp


The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.n…

Swamp Island

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns…

The Great White Queen

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William Le Queux


How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular LibriVox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different dir…

The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries

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L. T. Meade


Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Ro…

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

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Fred M. White


A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…

The Lodger

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Marie Belloc Lowndes


"The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as "The Avenger" in London, who has been killing young blonde …

The Green Jacket

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Jennette Lee


The Chief Legatee

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Anna Katharine Green


"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

Under the Andes

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Rex Stout


Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…

The Sign of the Broken Sword

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G. K. Chesterton


In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "S…

The Crimson Circle

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Edgar Wallace


The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of …

Verhalen van Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Een verzameling van negen avonturen van Sherlock Holmes, de bekende Britse detective, en zijn compaan Dr. Watson. (Samenvatting door Julie V…

Tajemnica Baskerville'ów

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Tajemnica Baskerville'ów (ang. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Pies Baskerville'ów) - powieść detektywistyczna sir Artura Cona…

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