Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Planet Strappers
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Raymond Z. Gallun
The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wante…
The Night Horseman
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert…
The Log of a Cowboy
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andy Adams
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western …
Two Thousand Miles Below
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
A science fiction novel that was originally produced in four parts in the publication: Astounding Stories in June, September, November 1932,…
The Untamed
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
Whistlin' Dan Barry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. With uncanny abilities he controls a wild stallion, approp…
The Petticoat Commando
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Johanna Brandt
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…
The Skylark of Space
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. E. “Doc” Smith
The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, …
Way of the Lawless
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to g…
Skylark Three
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. E. “Doc” Smith and E. E. "Doc" Smith
This is a sequel to The Skylark of Space. The novel concerns Richard Seaton and his allies who have encounters with aliens while fighting Du…
Industrial Conspiracies
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Clarence Darrow
Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…
Alcatraz
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richar…
The Outlet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andy Adams
Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of…
The Financier
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Theodore Dreiser
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andy Adams
Adams breathes life into the story of a Texas cowboy who becomes a wealthy and influential cattleman.. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
Gunman's Reckoning
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the toug…
The Ultimate Weapon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.
The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little w…
The Titan
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Theodore Dreiser
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…
The Girl in the Golden Atom
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ray Cummings
While examining a golden ring under a microscope, a chemist discovers a sub-atomic world. During his examination of this world he sees a bea…
Jennie Gerhardt
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Theodore Dreiser
This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from and extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs wi…
Black Jack
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery.…
The Heritage Of The Desert
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a…
The World Beyond
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ray Cummings
Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)
To the Last Man
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranc…
Secret of the Ninth Planet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Donald A. Wollheim
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within tw…
The Finding of Haldgren
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
Chet Ballard answers the pinpoint of light that from the craggy desolation of the moon stabs out man's old call for help. (Summary by Charle…
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Anna Katharine Green
It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered betw…
Dark Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures. (Summary by Ch…
Burning Daylight
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Jack London
Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best sellin…
Brood of the Dark Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzm…
The Rainbow Trail
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…
Phantoms of Reality
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ray Cummings
Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom…
The Riders of the Silences
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found the…
The Forgotten Planet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Murray Leinster
The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intend…
The People of the Mist
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
H. Rider Haggard
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the …
Jetta of the Lowlands
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ray Cummings
Fantastic and Sinister Are the Lowlands into Which Philip Grant Descends on His Dangerous Assignment. (Summary by Ray Cummings)
The Valley of the Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Jack London
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…
The Moon Master
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
Through Infinite Deeps of Space Jerry Foster Hurtles to the Moon—Only to be Trapped by a Barbaric Race and Offered as a Living Sacrifice to …
The Rangeland Avenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you'll like The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand. A soft …
Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Robert Sidney Bowen
One of a series of youth-oriented adventure books set in contemporary WWII era, featuring fictional American flying ace, Dave Dawson. (Summa…
Hand and Ring
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Anna Katharine Green
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…
Murder Madness
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Murray Leinster
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers wri…
First on the Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Jeff Sutton
The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found f…
Bull Hunter
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
Bull Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. But …
The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. (Summary…
Flowing Gold
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Rex Beach
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is abl…
Ride Proud, Rebel!
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andre Norton
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …
Tales of Space and Time
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
H. G. Wells
Five short Science Fiction stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer
Rebel Spurs
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andre Norton
In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans dr…
Supermind
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Laurence M. Janifer
FBI agent Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as …
The Forsaken Inn
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Anna Katharine Green
Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, "The Forsaken In…
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Carolyn Wells
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …
Whirligigs
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
O. Henry
A collection of short stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer
The Garden of Eden
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Max Brand
Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he di…
Jacob's Ladder
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is a story about Jacob Pratt who “stood bond” for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years la…
The Call Of The Canyon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…
The Vanished Messenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…
The Gold Bag
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Carolyn Wells
The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a beautiful niece, a private secretary and a will. enamored. A H…
The Genius
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Theodore Dreiser
"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dr…
The Rustlers of Pecos County
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
The town of Linrock, located in Pecos County in south Texas, has fallen under the control of a gang of rustlers. Two Texas Lone Star Rangers…
The Golden Web
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …
The Herapath Property
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
J. S. Fletcher
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…
Gold
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Stewart Edward White
This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the…
Operation Interstellar
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
George O. Smith
Haedaecker’s Theory claims that real-time communications across space is impossible. Paul Grayson believes that Z-wave technology will make …
A Chain of Evidence
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Carolyn Wells
The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there w…
The High Hander
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
William Turner and William Oliver Turner
Tesno was a troubleshooter. That's why the railroad construction company had hired him. His job was to make sure that nobody interfered with…
The Opal Serpent
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Fergus Hume
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparentl…
The Coming of the Law
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Alan Seltzer and Charles Alden Seltzer
A young Easterner, Hollis, a newspaper reporter, arrives in a small western town, to inherit his father’s ranch and his newspaper. He discov…
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Anna Katharine Green
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman wit…
The Border Legion
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Zane Grey
The story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho…
The Metropolis
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Upton Sinclair
In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a portrait of the wealthy …
A Mating in the Wilds
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ottwell Binns
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…
The Evil Shepherd
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows,…
The Lady of the North Star
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Ottwell Binns
A mysterious death. A wealthy beautiful young lady. Three men after her heart. Place this mixture in the snow bound northwest and you have t…
A Texas Matchmaker
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Andy Adams
As a boy Andy Adams helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 ye…
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
The Ranchman
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Alden Seltzer
A fast-paced old time western. Squint Taylor, a rancher and long time resident of Dawes, is challenged by a crooked newcomer for the positio…
The Box with the Broken Seals
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equa…
The Black Box
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Sanford Quest, the master criminologist of the world, attempts to bring to justice the murderer of Lord Ashleigh's daughter. But he soon dis…
The Trail to Yesterday
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Charles Alden Seltzer
A girl from the East finds herself confronted with a strange type of man with an ancient grudge. Dakota, the man, first convinces her that h…