Mystery

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Washington Irving


Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…

The Amateur Cracksman

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


E. W. Hornung


"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…

The Evil Guest

Read by Cate Barratt


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted …

No Name

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Wilkie Collins


The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is …

Mystery Playhouse


Old Time Radio


Short-run Old Time Radio mystery series hosted by Peter Lorre.

Dead Men's Money

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J. S. Fletcher


This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems... (Summary by Ges…

The Ruby and the Caldron

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Anna Katharine Green


A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…

Three Thousand Dollars

Read by Roger Melin


Anna Katharine Green


This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…

The Dragon's Secret

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Augusta Huiell Seaman


Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a s…

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

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Gaston Leroux


This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…

Lucille Ball


Various


Lucille Ball; there is only one Lucy! Here are several different shows she starred in. 109 episodes of her radio program "My Favourite …

The Secret Passage

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Fergus Hume


Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…

The Stillwater Tragedy

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Thomas Bailey Aldrich


Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi…

The Teeth of the Tiger

Read by Cate Barratt


Maurice Leblanc


Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and th…

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Maurice Leblanc


In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title &q…

Midnight

Read by Roger Melin


Octavus Roy Cohen


The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--the…

Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1

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Thomas Peckett Prest


This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampy…

Murder at St. Dennis

Read by Maria Therese


Margaret Ann Hubbard


A cunning killer prowls the winding corridors of an old hospital in this thriller by the author of "Murder Takes the Veil". (From …

The Italian

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Ann Radcliffe


The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…

The Green Rust

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Edgar Wallace


A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor—to find and secretly watch ove…

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